Jason Schoonover

Opium Dream (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Adventurer Lee Rivers, field collector for museums, is onto the hottest find of his career: Kublai Khan's long missing grave and terracotta warriors.
Even before he camels onto Afghanistan's Desert of Death with the lovely Hmong princess Meow to spirit 24 of the priceless artifacts out, he narrowly escapes being murdered in Saigon and Bangkok; and mysterious assassins and equally mysterious Guardian Angels dog them on the harrowing escape by Catalina, piloted by his eccentric and best friend Snake.
Only after Rivers has sold the statues to national museums around the world does he learn they embody a terrifying secret that threatens civilization's very existence. It's only then that he learns that the woman he's come to love has an awful secret of her own....

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Schoonover
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301732692
• Artikelnr.: 70635385

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...