Jason Schoonover

Thai Gold (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the steamy Far East, a legendary treasure beckons.... Everyone in the Golden Triangle and in the world of antiquities has heard The Rumor, but few believe it's more than local myth - until high in the Himalayas a Buddhist monk is murdered and his monastery ransacked. Among the stolen treasures is the most sacred icon of the Eastern world - the gold- and jewel-encrusted head of Guatama Buddha. When a wealthy client calls on collector and adventurer Lee Rivers to track down the macabre - and priceless - relic, he finds the assignment irresistible. Rivers' specialties are Asian antiquities, exotic women, and high-priced danger. But nothing he has survived so far can prepare him for this unholy quest. And no woman he has known can compare to Tysee, the daughter of a notorious Burmese drug warlord. Together, Rivers and Tysee find themselves pitted against drug traffickers, ex-Nazis, Sikh and Muslim extremists, Russian Intelligence and the CIA - all ruthlessly determined to recover the Head at any cost. It's a riveting tale of non-stop action and taut expense that's quite unlike anything you've read before.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Schoonover
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301710737
• Artikelnr.: 70635558

Autorenporträt

Jason Schoonoverwriter, adventurer, expedition leader, ethnologist, archaeologist, paleontologist, canoeist, naturalist, photographer and Fellow Emeritus, Stefansson Medalist, Citation of Merit awardee, and on the Honor Roll of The Explorers Club, Fellow Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medalwas brought up on farms, villages and towns in Saskatchewan, Canada, and cities like Saskatoon and Vancouver. This explains why he feels equally at home canoeing in the remote north of his homeland, one of his passions, and living in mega-cities like Bangkok.

Following university (Simon Fraser, English and History, 1970, Vancouver), he launched a multi-media career as a disk jockey, and expanded into writing, directing and producing in radio, TV, stage, newspapers and magazines, including stints as a columnist. His largest stage production was writing, directing and producing Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's 80th birthday party gala in 1975, an extravaganza involving over 300 performers and personnel. He founded Schoonover Properties and invested everything in Saskatoon real estate. Since 1977, he's been gainfully unemployed and began traveling in earnest.

On his first solo around the world, stringing travel as a photo-journalist to Canadian and U.S. dailies, he discovered a new and fascinating career in Asiaanthropological collecting for museums internationally. He moved to Bangkok in 1982. This exciting lifestyle led to the publication in 1988 of his first adventure novel, The Bangkok Collection, which became the Bantam international paperback bestseller Thai Gold the following year. All his books, fiction and non-fiction, are in the adventure field.

He's been Team Leader on over 40 expeditions, including several 18-member dinosaur bone hunting forays in Alberta with renowned paleontologist Phil Currie as his Field Leaderwhich resulted in a major find; explored Asian jungles and the Himalaya piecing together ethnographic collections for museums; excavated caves in Thailand for Paleolithic finds resulting in the building of a museum; fixed the opening episode for Les Survivorman Stroud's Beyond Survival in Sri Lanka; led numerous canoe expeditions with Capt. Norm Baker, Thor Heyerdahl's First Mate on the Ra voyages across the Atlantic, as his own First Mate; and explored Thailand's abandoned WW-II River Kwai Death Railway with Sir Rodney Beattie. He's also been charged by a bull elephant...