A journalist's assignment in Thailand is compromised when his young tour guide is kidnapped. Despite a four day deadline to pay the ransom, else the lad's body would be found floating in a city canal, even the police refuse action! So could it be a 'rogue' police chief? Could it be a hoax by the boy and his parents to gain easy riches from a foreign journalist? Or even the manager of Connor's hotel? Or one of the country's notorious underground cartels at work? A cartel even with a plant in the Tourist Authority Office, who recommended this particular guide? Or a hoax by a local tour-guide rebel just out after "easy money?" Connor's cabal decides to take its own action.

Author Biography

A retired journalist, Kev spent many years touring the world writing travel articles for airline magazines. His many adventures and misadventures became the bases for his several action/adventure novels. A student of Australia's founding as a convict settlement, Kev's six novels on that unique history and the demise of the Aboriginal Dreamtime, are legendary. Several biographies of significant people, including his own teen years (an EPIC Award winner, as have been two other works) have come from his pen. All Kev's twenty novels have been awarded by professional reviewers, either 5 Stars or 5+ or 5++ Stars and two others (part of a WW2 quartet), received from Conger Book Reviews, its first and only 10 Star reviews. All his works are available as both paperback and eBook. Go visit him on www.kev-richardson.com. Kev is twice married and now enjoys single life writing on his experiences and studies, relaxing in the Himalayan foothills of exotic Thailand.