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050 00 $aDS526.9$b.C69 1996
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100 1 $aCox, Christopher R.
245 10 $aChasing the dragon :$binto the heart of the Golden Triangle /$cChristopher R. Cox.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHenry Holt & Co.,$c1996.
300 $a336 pages :$bmaps ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"A Marian Wood book."
520 $aThe features desk of an American newspaper may seem an unlikely launchpad for a journey into one of the world's most remote and dangerous regions, but for journalist Christopher Cox, it was where the story began. It would end nearly three years later in the almost inaccessible mountain fastnesses of Shan State, Burma, as Cox brought off a journalistic coup even hard-bitten foreign correspondents might envy: a rare personal audience with General Khun Sa, the man U.S. law.
520 $aEnforcement dubbed "The Prince of Death," the man thought to control a third of the world's supply of heroin. Accompanied by an obsessed Vietnam vet who had given up everything in his single-minded search for American POWs left behind in Southeast Asia and an eccentric expat with close personal ties to the general, Cox was going to cross forbidden borders to enter a region long off-limits to Westerners. And armed with little more than a backpack stuffed with vodka, porno.
520 $aTapes, and cigarettes, he was going to succeed. His journey would take him deep into the Golden Triangle, a shadowy zone of banditry, drug smuggling, and the ghost armies of past wars. He would begin in the red-light district of Bangkok, with its sex bars and soaring HIV rates, then head up into northern borderlands newly discovers by package-tour groups, and finally cross a jungled no-man's-land into the world of the Shan, where tough tribesmen trade opium and precious.
520 $aGemstones for the arms they need to fight the Burmese.
505 2 $aObjective, Burma! -Pussy business. -Border problems. -Getting in. -Opium tears. -Getting out.
651 0 $aGolden Triangle (Southeast Asia)$xDescription and travel.
650 0 $aOpium trade$zGolden Triangle (Southeast Asia)
651 6 $aTriangle d'Or (Asie du Sud-Est)$xDescriptions et voyages.
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