Thursday, January 30, 2014

The Arrow Catcher



In the late 1940s young Jonathan Lusk’s life is altered forever.  When his father is killed by an Arab bomb and his mother injured and blind Jonathan finds his life turned upside down.
 
Tending his blind mother, he watches her as she slowly falls into madness and eventually dies-a mere husk of her former self.

Jonathan has no place to go accept to live with his grandfather who lives in Japan.  Once there he immerses himself in the opulent American lifestyle only to have it wrenched away from him-replaced by an austere Japanese way of life.

Alone, among strangers and unprepared to live in a foreign country he soon finds himself thrust into political and foreign intrigue with only his wits., perseverance and courage to see him through.

Jim Mather’s The Arrow Catcher successfully intermingles the West and East in a suspenseful story of traditions clashing, personal discovery and the powers behind politics, business and culture.

It is a story of one young man’s life as he matures, makes choices (both good and bad) and learns that the arrow once shot may be caught: the choice to live or die is ultimately left up to an individual.