Cirrus@Austlit

In 1904, the Sri Kumala, a Chinese schooer became wrecked off Sanur in Bali. Claiming the vessel had been sacked by the Balinese, the Dutch attack recorded in history as the brutal Puputan Wars, was to change Bali and its culture forver. Entire kingdoms perished as wave upon wave of the island's inhabitants committed suicide. European artists become entrenched, integrating with the Balinese. Their stories of surviving the Dutch invasion, then the Japanese and the brutal slaughter of more than eighty-thousane Balinese, reveals an unspoken image of Bali, The Island of the Gods.'

Source: Back-cover blurb.

'In 1961, and one month following the disappearance of Michael C. Rockefeller off the southern coast of what was then known as Dutch Western New Guinea, Indonesia invaded and annexed the territory and commenced the systematic slaughter of indigenous Papuans, to pave the way for a massive wave of transmigrated Javanese.

'With the meteoric rise of the new powerhouses, China and India, Indonesian-occupied West Papua's wealth of oil, gas and minerals precipitates an international power-play for control over the vast natural resources.

'Decades have passed since the twenty-three year old Rockefeller disappeared - long presumed dead, when sightings of the heir are widely reported.

'Demands for West Papuan independence gain momentum and Australia is again drawn into military conflict with the Indonesian Motherland, Ibu Pertiwi.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Crescent Moon Rising relates the rise of militant Islam across Asia and how the U.S. and other foreign agencies missed opportunities to arrest not only the instigators of the September 11 attacks on the U.S.A. but also those who created the Jamaah Islamiyah and carried out the Bali bombings.
(Source: Publishers blurb)