Stone Gods, Wooden Elephants

By Bob Bergin

This action-paced adventure story, centered in the world of Asian antiques, involves colorful characters in settings ranging from the remote mountains on northern Thailand and Bangkok's exotic nightspots to an antique shop in America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157023177X
• ISBN13: 9781570231773
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Impact Publications
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A GREAT STORY THAT CAPTURES THE SENSUALITY OF ASIA

Between the covers of these books, the reader will find a little bit of everything that makes up the total package of experiencing Southeast Asia: negotiating the complexities of social relations, colliding with street-level life, peering down the small side streets shrouded in ancient patinas, and stumbling into the riot of everyday adventures, some soft and quiet, others loud and threatening, but all of them worth the price of a return ticket. A great, fun story.

A blistering fast pace

A blistering fast pace takes the reader from the US to Thailand and back, with a fascinating look at the seamy underside of the Asian antiquities market. This is a tale of adventure that is peopled by beautiful women, duplicitous crooks and, of course, an antique dealer with a taste for life. This is a fun read.

Great title; great story

The book captured my interest from the start and held it to the end. A phone message from an old friend in Bangkok draws the main character, Harry, from his Asian antiques business in the States into a fantastic adventure with tales of extraordinary and incredible discoveries deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Written with humor and just enough detail to make this story fun and believable, the book leads you from the seamy side of Bangkok familiar to expatriots into some very remote and dangerous areas, with forests so thick and deep the only means of movement are on the backs of elephants and by long-tailed boats on a river. An apparently startling discovery has been made and Harry and his friend develop a plot to make themselves rich through an international and illicit network of greed. The plot has enough surprises to make the book difficult to put down. Very enjoyable reading.

Stone Gods, Wooden Elephants

Bob Bergin - author of Stone Gods, Wooden Elephants masterfully sets the plot; and ushers the reader into a world where few authors dare to venture.This is an exciting book, and I highly recommend it!