Taming the Savage Monsoon [Paperback]

Kathy Hopper (Author), Martha Teas (Author), Joyce Smith and Margaret Green (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 21, 2005

Royal intrigue as impenetrable as the rain forest canopy threatens the survival of UNOIC's new Public Information Officer when she discovers a conspiracy to camouflage child trafficking in the guise of a new nature preserve in Cambodia's remote Ratanakiri Province.

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From the Back Cover

Lindsay March is bright, beautiful, and thoroughly cosmopolitan. Unfortunately, neither beauty nor brains can ensure her success as UNOIC’s new Public Information Officer in Cambodia, where royal intrigue is as thick and impenetrable as the rain forest canopies. In remote Ratanakiri Province, a renegade general is conniving to camouflage trafficking in lumber, gems, drugs, and tribal children in the guise of a new nature preserve. Lindsay’s efforts to investigate the project are complicated when a ghost from her past surfaces as the King’s Special Advisor. Although she is cautioned against him by a Cambodian fortuneteller and the French Military Attaché, their warnings are lost in the raging winds of a tropical monsoon when Lindsay and Maximiliano are marooned in the heart of the jungle.

About the Author

Kathy Hopper, Martha Teas, Joyce Smith, and Margaret Green began writing Taming the Savage Monsoon in 1995, when all four were working for United Nations organizations in Cambodia. Kathy Hopper completed the story as a memorial to co-author Martha Teas, who was killed in the bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad in 2003. In Martha's memory, all royalties are donated to the Martha Teas Memorial Fund, which supports child amputees in Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc. (August 21, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591137861
• ISBN-13: 978-1591137863
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,114,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best unknown authors, September 7, 2009

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Higbee "wine appreciator" (france) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Taming the Savage Monsoon (Paperback)

I read this book by the hazard of things and highly appreciate the knowledge and meaningfull
descriptions of the Khmer rouge period...It is very historical but also fun and full of beautiful
scenes. I really wish that Kathy Hopper would write more or a least edit more of her writing.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great description of Cambodia, good story, January 12, 2007

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Larry Ketchersid "author of Software by the K... (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taming the Savage Monsoon (Paperback)

How can four authors combine to write a story that flows this smoothly? I have trouble just writing by myself!

Taming the Savage Monsoon is the story of Lindsay March, a minor political dignitary who gets caught way out of her league in a story of UN and Cambodian political intrigue. The descriptions of the situations Lindsay gets herself into are well done, obviously from the author's own experiences as women in Cambodia. The beautiful natural side of the country, the opulence of the palaces is contrasted with the dirt poor natives and the sleazy, drug infested red-light district. This book is a quick read, but an enjoyable one.

In addition, the book is dedicated to one of the authors, Martha Teas, who was killed in the bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad in 2003. All royalties from the sale of the book are donated to a fund in her name for child amputees in Cambodia. A good read and a good cause.

5.0 out of 5 stars Taming the Savage Monsoon, December 19, 2005

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J. J. Saumweber (St. Paul, MN, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taming the Savage Monsoon (Paperback)

This book is a great combination of romance, mystery, adventure, political intrigue and historical fiction. I lived in Cambodia in the 1990s and knew the authors. Taming the Savage Monsoon does a wonderful job of capturing the mood of that unique place and time, and of the unique characters who lived there.