The Force of Karma

In churning childhood memories into captivating recollection of the lives of the Surins in impoverished Isan, in "Monsoon Country" (1954-1981), Pira Sudham did not stray far from the realities. Being much concerned with rampant corruption he could no longer hide under the cloak of a public relations consultant in Bangkok when the saga has to cover the tumultuous years of 1981 to 2001 in "The Force of Karma". Hence he decided to take Goliath and Company into the cauldron. Perceiving at close quarters a corruptive force and the cancerous rot, he A tree, rotten at the core, falls of its own accord. The financial crash of 1997 is merely a rash. The fall is yet to come.In the process, the life of an Isan pauper, Prem 'Primo' Surin fatefully entwines with those of the bibulous billionaire, Dani 'Danny' Pilakol, the winsome University of London graduate, Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Durham, the grandee of the old school art dealer, Charles Tregonning, the versatile hotelier, Karl Michael 'Micky' Wittenburg, the ambitious, Major General Ayumongkol 'Ayo' Mongkolkulthorn and the famous opera singer-composer-conductor, Wilhelm 'Willie' Hagenbach in Thailand, England and Germany. Their fellowship, the Operation Norma, the inheritance and the force of destiny have all been intricately woven. 'Monsoon Country' and its sequel, The Force of Karma have become a most riveting and provocative saga out of the insurgency and suppression in the 1970's, the 1997 economic fiasco and the killing fields (the massacres in October 1973, October 1976 and May 1992) in Thailand.