Book review: Richard Chiappone’s suspenseful yet lighthearted political thriller “The Hunger of Crows,” which is set in Homer, belongs on everyone’s late summer reading list.
Homer, Alaska, doesn’t leap to mind as an obvious setting for a political thriller, especially one where the outcome could determine an American presidential race. Which is why Homer makes perfect sense. When someone has something to hide and someone to hide from, the fabled End of the Road is an enticing destination.
The second white man in the photograph is Gordon McKint, owner of Sidewinder Security, a secretive international firm that handles clandestine foreign relations tasks and is moving into U.S. border security. McKint is running for president on a nativist platform and has momentum. Carla sends a snapshot of the photograph to a reporter friend at The New York Times, who tells her it shows McKint with a Colombian colonel who stole millions in U.S. aid money.
Got it? I don’t want to reveal too many more details here, because Chiappone throws so many unexpected twists into this plot that any attempt at summarizing them would not only fail to do the book justice, it would deprive readers of the sheer joy that comes from reading it.
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