THE LONG KISS GOODBYE
A Novel
The Long Kiss Goodbye
Story
A modern-day version of Antonioni's 1966 "Blow-Up" set in 2003 Beijing
Against what everyone thought was China's "coming-out party," a stormy backdrop of celebrities, gangsters, an exploding music and party scene and attempts at finding romantic closure, a commercial photographer is approached and befriended by a fellow New Yorker who becomes involved in a CIA operation to facilitate the defection of the father of North Korea's nuclear program, around the time of the Six Party Talks.
About
Inspired by true events
"The Long Kiss Goodbye" is based on actual experiences, incorporating public figures as they were experienced, with other names changed and certain circumstances fictionalized for dramatic effect. It is a unique combination of personal storytelling, historical events, nuclear geopolitics, investigative narrative, and human-centred experiences.
Purpose
Why was it important to tell this story?
It's not just the nuclear geopolitics, documentary storytelling, cultural history, investigative narratives, and visual and written style that comprise the novel aspects of this account. It's also the context of its presence, within the social and political noise we currently inhabit.