Title: Chasing the dragon : into the heart of the Golden Triangle /
Authors: Cox, Christopher R.
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Opium trade Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia); Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) Description and travel.
Abstract: The 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.
Contents: Objective, Burma! -Pussy business. -Border problems. -Getting in. -Opium tears. -Getting out.