The King Kong Effect

Paul Adirex

Aries Productions (Thailand)

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343

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About this ebook

A former American assistant military attache now living in Phuket, an island in the Andaman Sea in southern Thailand, joins force with a female Thai marine scientist to foil an assassination attempt on the visiting US president by an international drug trafficking cartel. The assassins discover the deadly venom of a geography cone snail which has a bizarre and fatal result called the King Kong effect which is unstoppable and there is no antivenin. The former attache and the marine scientist must survive through a series of adventures in a race against time and ruthless assassins to save the US president from the King Kong effect.

About the author

Paul Adirex is the pen name of American-educated Thai politician and businessman, Pongpol Adireksarn. Elected six times to the Thai House of Representatives, he has been an active member of parliament and deputy leader of the ruling political party, Thai Rak Thai. In addition, he has served as minister of foreign affairs, tourism and sports, agriculture and cooperatives, education, as well as holding the post of deputy prime minister.

He has written five other English-language novels: The Pirates of Tarutao, Mekong, Until the Karma Ends, The King Kong Effect, and Rattanakosin. His works in Thai include a two-part historical novel, a book about travel in his native country, a treatise on agricultural development in Thailand, an autobiography, and several articles on politics and tourism in leading Thai newspapers.

He is also the producer of a Thai television documentary program about world heritage sites.

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