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Yes, there is now a facebook page on The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, my 2005 novel. This new amazing facebook feature will feature news, reviews and updates on this ripping story of three hippies who drove a bus full of drugs from London to Kathamndu in 1976.
There are plans to republish The Devil’s Road to [...]
‘Blood’s dirt,’ he laughed, looking away
Far off to where his wound had bled
And almost merged for ever into clay.
‘The world is washing out its stains,’ he said.
‘It doesn’t like our cheeks so red:
Young blood’s its great objection.
But when we’re duly white-washed, being dead,
The race will bear Field-Marshal God’s inspection.’
Wilfred Owen, [...]
When Dan, Tim and Fred, three naive hippies, set off from London to Kathmandu with few funds and a dodgy bus, a drug deal in Pakistan seems like the most common sense way to make the journey pay. But the mountains of the Hindu Kush, a mysterious Frenchman, a set of Iranian Siamese Twins cum nightclub singers, [...]