Riding the Tiger, trying not to fall off

Download or read book Riding the Tiger, trying not to fall off written by Stephen Michael Custins and published by The Writers Lab. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscripted into the South African army during Apartheid, Hugh Remington finds fertile ground for his natural inclination to trick and exaggerate. His cunning scores a bullseye when an unintended action spawns the luckiest of consequences. He spins it as deliberate, and the press agree, elevating him to national hero. It is even reported that his “brave and exemplary action” was the catalyst that helped unify the country. However, it’s not enough. He is caught in flagrante delicto during official business, booted out of the military, and advised to leave the country. Banished to London, he embarks on a business career that leads to China. It is there that things take a nasty turn. Framed for the most heinous of crimes, he is forced to flee and, through a stroke of luck bags a seat on the underground railroad, a secret network that escapes North Korean defectors across China, into Laos and finally the haven of Thailand. Can he survive and, what’s more, restore his dubious reputation?