Floating city [antikvár]

Skow "Plcrteow, BurnaAwtwrnn 1983It was said that they called him Wild Boy because he had seen every Tarzan film, knew every Tarzan's name from Elmo Lincoln onward. He had his favorites, of course, but he claimed to love them all.Theythat is, the mountain tribes of the Shanhad no reason to disbelieve him, since Tarzan films were the rage in the foothill towns below that were lucky enough to have a projector, and able to rent films flown in from Bangkok.Truth to tell, the Shan who knew Rockwhich is to say all of them who were involved in the growing, harvesting, refining, selling, and shipping of the tears of the poppy called him Wild Boy because they had seen him screw together his custom-made rocket launcher, slap it over his right shoulder, and blow his enemies into kingdom come.Over the years, one opium warlord after the other had tried to kill Rock, but Wild Boy had been, in his own words, "born and raised on rock 'n' roll and war." He was a veteran of Vietnam, at the war's height, in charge of recruiting CIDGs, Civilian Irregular Defense Groups, from the Wa, the Lu, the Lisu, all the mountain tribes of Burma, and from the Mekong Delta-born Cambodians to fight the Viet Cong. He was one of those rare, blood-soaked demons who3