Lords of the Rim by Sterling Seagrave

Sterling Seagrave grew raised on the Myanmar-China border in Asia. Seagrave worked as an investigative writer in Asia for many years, and his work appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Life, and a variety of other publications. He is the author of The Soong Dynasty, a New York Times best-seller and a Book of the Month Club favorite. Yellow Rain: A Journey Through the Horror of Chemical Warfare and Red Sky in the Morning, which he co-wrote with his wife, Peggy, a longstanding collaborator, are two of his other novels. They are based in France.