Chasing the Dragon: Into the Heart of the Golden Triangle - Hardcover

Cox, Christopher R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805038639 ISBN 13: 9780805038637

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1996

Synopsis

A feature reporter relates his adventures and misadventures as he enters Burma in search of an interview with the drug kingpin, Khun Sa, who controls thirty percent of the heroin entering the United States.

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Review:

Cox, a reporter for the Boston Herald, traveled into the Shan State, the lawless region of northern Myanmar (or Burma) that produces much of the world's opium, to interview Khun Sa, the drug warlord who built himself a jungle empire on drug profits and who styled himself a Shan freedom-fighter. Khun Sa, who has since "retired" and lives in Yangon (formerly Rangoon), is a complex character. This account of bearding the devil in his lair combines thorough research, high adventure, and prose pungent with the odor of poppies blooming on remote mountainsides.

About the Author:

An award-winning journalist, CHRISTOPHER R. COX has written on and traveled extensively through Southeast Asia for more than 20 years.  His work has appeared in The Boston Herald, Reader’s Digest, Conde Nast Traveler, Audubon, Men’s Journal and ESPN: The Magazine.  His books include Chasing the Dragon and A Good Death.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0805038639
• ISBN 13: 9780805038637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336