Bøker av Jonathan Chamberlain

There is a darkness in men's hearts that war sets free. When their war is over, they bring that darkness back home with them. It's a short trail from the jungles of Vietnam to the forests of the Appalachian Mountains. A complex tale involves a journey back to Vietnam and into the dark past: a past where Clausewitz, the philosopher of war, meets de Sade, the philosopher of man's own individual evil.

This text provides the building blocks of this religion for which even the Chinese have no name. The beliefs are so intertwined with language and culture they have no independent existence. Chamberlain also provides an in-depth analysis of 19 major gods of the Chinese pantheon.

Some periods in history are best illuminated by the stories of the people who lived through them. This is one such story ? the bizarre but true account of Peter Hui, a man involved with scandal, corruption, drugs, pirates, triads and colonial high society; who collaborated with the Japanese, spied on the Communists and fought with American servicemen on R who really did, for a short time, own all the opium in Hong Kong.