China Vietnam

The fourth in the series of John Peters Mystery Thrillers. Following on Operation Black Amphora, the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great, the Devil's Dagger, preventing a global virus disaster and Treasures of the Deep, searching for lost treasures on sunken ships and preventing an ecological disaster, John, his wife Liz and their friends Harry and Meg, Nicos and Maria as well as Fred and Angelique James are off on another adventure this time in the Pacific and confronting old enemies.

With the introduction of Conscription in the 1960s, it was realised that Australia’s defence forces would now have access to a wider pool of talented men, other than those that normally volunteer for service. Major Jack Roberts was tasked by the defence department to form a small group from the National Servicemen to take on some unique tasks. He chose three young men that had shown signs of being able to work with anyone from different backgrounds or ethnic groups. These three men were a Christian, a Jew and a Moslem. After being whisked away from their regiment, as it sailed for Vietnam...

Faced with buying a car and getting a real job - or taking the money and blowing it on a six-month adventure around Asia...well, there really is no contest! Who wouldn't want to visit exotic places, like Borneo, Cambodia, and China? Who wouldn't want to tackle the world's most dangerous hiking path, tangle with the Vietnamese Mafia, and suffer days in the dreaded Mongolian saddle? And who wouldn't want to try five-organ soup? All he has to do is survive long enough to realize his dreams.

It's 1995 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police, travels to Vietnam to deliver some diamonds to a crooked English lawyer. It should be a simple favour for a friend until someone offers him a large sum of money to kill the owner of a toy factory in Danang and things start to get complicated. And when an old enemy turns up working for the gangster who leads the mysterious Buaya Society, Jedburgh knows that he will need luck rather than his skills as The Reliable Man to get out of this situation.

Americans are accustomed to thinking that World War II ended on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Yet on the mainland of Asia, in the vast arc stretching from Manchuria to Burma, peace was a brief, fretful interlude. In some parts of Asia, such as Java and Southern Indonesia, only a few weeks passed before new fighting broke out between nationalist forces and the former colonial powers.

Chris Knowles was born on October 24th, 1949. He was raised in Washington, DC. He entered The Sidwell Friends School, Washington's most exclusive coeducational college preparatory school, in September of 1952 at the age of two. In the Fall of 1962, he was 13 years old and beginning his Eighth Grade year when the photointerpreters at the National Photo Interpretation Center at the Washington Navy Yard detected Soviet offensive ballistic missiles stationed on the island of Cuba. This marked the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the intervening years, he attended The University of ...

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger - at least for those who neither revere nor revile him.

Vietnamese girls are a minefield. A very hot minefield. We've got the hoochie-koochie, but we're also a load of trouble, and an enigma wrapped in a mystery. And a bowl of pho. We come on strong, then suddenly back away. We wear extremely revealing clothes, but faint at the mention of sex. And our college girls look like ladies of the night, while our ladies of the night look like college girls. Hey, it's Vietnam! It's Vietnamese dating culture. And this book is the complete guide to succeeding in it. Is it English practice or is it a date? Mack on college students without being creepy. ...

Get rich, Chinese style How did Chinese people get all that bling? How did China get rich? And why do Chinese people seem so successful in business even outside Asia? The answers aren't often discussed in an honest and practical way. Chinese people will tell you that they're "smart" or "hardworking" or "lucky," while outsiders will tell you that it must be some kind of Asian mystery. This book is about why Chinese bosses hate hiring Chinese employees, why China's technically competent factories turn out shoddy products, and how it is that poor Chinese immigrants tend to do better in their ...

Vietnamese women are so hot but so tricky.If you're anything like Derek Strong, Vietnamese women are your favorite Asian women. They have the hottest bodies, the most gorgeous faces, and the most energetic personalities. They're also the best at lovemaking. Every US city is full of smoking-hot Vietnamese women. But they're a mystery. Either they're hot or they're cold, and either they're all about the money or all about family honor. It's a lot to think about, but Vietnamese women are so hot that they're worth the effort. You don't know how to approach Vietnamese women.How can you meet them...