Underground

di HENRI KEMAL (Autore)

HENRI KEMAL, 2026

For three years, he carried a lighter that didn't belong to him. He told himself it meant nothing. He was lying. Andy is the kind of man who doesn't get attached. Eleven years in Jakarta's criminal underground has made that easy — move fast, trust no one, never let anything matter enough to be used against you. It's a clean way to live. It costs everything, but it's clean. Then Fatma calls. Three years of silence. No explanation. Now she's standing in a warehouse at two in the morning with a photograph that names a colonel, a general, and a conspiracy running straight through the heart of Indonesia's national intelligence agency. She has three weeks before the people who want it back decide three weeks is too long. Andy agrees to keep her alive. He tells himself it's operational. He knows it isn't. What follows is five days across the rain-soaked back alleys of Jakarta — five days of safe houses that aren't safe, of people Andy trusts dying, of a conspiracy so deep its architect has never once appeared in a single report. Not in seven years. The enemy doesn't leak. The enemy already knew before either of them arrived. And underneath all of it — underneath the running and the dying and the truth that keeps getting darker — there is a lighter. A Zippo Andy has carried for three years. The one Fatma left behind when she disappeared. The one he has never once put down, never once stopped turning between his fingers in the dark, even when he had every reason to throw it away. Especially then. Because some things you carry not because you forgot to put them down — but because putting them down would mean admitting what they mean. Underground is a cinematic thriller set in Jakarta — precise, atmospheric, morally complex, and built to keep you reading past midnight. A story about corruption and conspiracy and the cost of knowing too much. But above all, a story about two people who spent three years pretending the distance between them was something other than what it was

• Autore: HENRI KEMAL
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: HENRI KEMAL
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233942549