Blood on the Lotus

This is my only published novel to date. Here is a passage below from my introduction to the book.

"During the years I worked as a trekking guide in Nepal I wandered the length and breadth of the country. I heard stories of Buddha and learnt why prayer flags fly in the wind, I startled a snow leopard on a mountainside, I was shown how to live from the plants in the jungle, I was told about the habits of yetis in the stone-walled villages beneath Mt Everest. And in the shadows cast towards Tibet by the Annapurna range I heard - strangest of all - rumours of the CIA. To me at that time, nothing could have seemed further away from the simple rural lifestyle of Nepal. My interest was aroused. After travelling to Tibet and India and searching out key figures in Britain and the United States, I began to piece together a scarcely believable tale, fragments of which I have drawn together in this novel. The events related here occurred in the early 1970s. I have taken many liberties with the facts in my attempt to shuffle them together into a cohesive, continuous story... The result is a book which is neither a history or a flight of fancy. As with every war, the struggle between China and Tibet had its human side. This became my focus. The struggle described here has long since finished - but the Chinese still occupy Tibet, and Tibetans in exile still demand freedom for their country. History may well repeat itself."

Published by Simon and Schuster Australia, 1990, in hardcover.