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"Don 't Go, Ramanya is thriller reading at its best." -- The Midwest Book Review "Filled with excellent descriptions...a thoughtful tale that keeps the pages turning." -- Publishers Weekly Ramanya, a fomer rebel soldier from Burma (Myanmar), now lives as a Buddhist monk in Thailand. One morning, a strange man appears at Ramanya’s temple and says that his family, which Ramanya had long thought dead, is actually alive and in hiding back in Burma. Is it true? Or just a trick by the ruling junta to lure him back and execute him for war crimes? A hostage crisis in downtown Bangkok rockets up tension between the two countries. Armies mobilize and head to the border. Ramanya and two of his closest confidants — an American teacher and a British

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