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Thai Gold

An international bestseller.
In the Steamy Far East, A Legendary Treasure Beckons....

Everyone in the Golden Triangle and in the world of antiquities has heard The Rumor, but few believe it’s more than local myth—until high in the Himalayas, a Buddhist monk is murdered and his monastery ransacked. Among the stolen treasures is the most sacred icon of the Eastern world—the gold-and-jewel-encrusted head of Guatama Buddha. When a wealthy client calls on collector and adventurer Lee Rivers to track down the macabre—and priceless—relic, he finds the assignment irresistible. River’s specialties are Asian antiquities, exotic women, and high-priced danger. But nothing he has survived up to now can prepare him for this unholy quest. And no woman he has ever enjoyed can compare to the mysterious and sensual Tysee, the daughter of a violent Burmese warlord. Together, River and Tysee find themselves pitted against a brutal tribe of drug traffickers, ruthless ex-Nazis, bloodthirsty Sikhs, cold-blooded KGB agents, and a relentless CIA operative—all determined to recover the head at any cost!

A tour de force . . . accurate to a fault.
-Bangkok Post

The book I’ve most reread is Thai Gold by Jason Schoonover.
-Jack Du Brul

Stands heroically un-PC in a literary world.
-Bangkok Nation

Reviews: www.thaioasis.com/literature/bkkbangkokfiction_schoonover.php

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Opium Dream

In the Afghan Desert, an Archaeological Treasure is Unearthed....

In the exciting sequel to Thai Gold, Lee Rivers, field collector of antiquities and primitive art, is onto the hottest find of his career—Kublai Khan’s long-lost burial site and its accompanying terracotta harem. Even before he camels into Afghanistan’s Desert-of-Death to spirit out 24 of the priceless artifacts, Rivers narrowly escapes assassination in Saigon and at this home in Bangkok, and mysterious gunmen and guardian angels dog him and his motley crew of companions on their harrowing 3,000-mile escape from the desert to the relatively safe havens of Luxor and Cairo. There he learns the stunning reason—one as earth shattering as the truth about the beautiful woman he has fallen in love with.

This simply is a great book.
-Brian Callaghan, Manhattan editor

I had to ask for a late checkout from the Amari Watergate Hotel because I could not possibly wait to read the last two chapters later at home! Riveting read...one helluva good yarn. Get it! You will enjoy it.
-Lang Reid, Pattaya Mail

Great sense of characterization.
-Bangkok Metro

Antiquities and global politics is the focus, with a good cast of dodgy characters, and past and present spooks.
-Thaioasis.com

Reviews: www.pattayamail.com/510/bmm.shtml

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The Bangkok Collection

The original 1988 Seal Canadian hardbound which morphed into Bantam's international paperback Thai Gold.  Why the name change? Too many reviewers and interviewers on my month-long, cross-Canada book tour that summer  called it The Bangkok Connection—with the implication it was a drug book. Lee Rivers certainly isn't beyond taking a hoot or a line, but it wasn't a drug book. Thus, the name change suggested by Bantam—which I thought was great.

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Thai Gold (Bantam Edition)

The 1989 Bantam edition which became an international bestseller. It has always surprised me how many readers report reading it over and over again.