This is the compelling tale of Luke, a Korean adoptee who comes to
an American family at age one and who gradually loses his life's
way-to die from crack cocaine at age 21. It is also a story of his
adoptive father, a CIA officer, who offers an unsparing and vivid
account of his own efforts-wise, misguided, passionate, naive,
creative, ultimately unsuccessful-to save his son. Luke is warm,
likeable, funny, quick to win friends-and a skilled deceiver, able
to impress others with a seeming maturity and urbanity. But the
image he works to create for himself is increasingly belied by the
darker realities of his life and the black hole he creates around
his family. The tale chronicles a poignant and tumultuous quest to
grasp the meaning of Luke's life-and death-against a broad
international backdrop from Afghanistan to Latin America. It
explores the mysteries of adoption, identity, addiction-and grace.
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