In the early 1990s, authors Kenneth Cain and Heidi Postlewait, two American U.N. employees, along with Andrew Thomson, a New Zealand doctor, were sent to Cambodia. Motivated by idealism, financial need, adventure, and wanting to be part of history, the three move from Cambodia, Somalia and Haiti, to Bosnia, Rwanda and Liberia, finding death, bureaucratic betrayal, liberation from their pasts and seamy, regret-tainted sex amid the body parts and rotting flesh.
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