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Taming the Savage Monsoon

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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.

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.

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.