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I was born and raised in Lewes, East Sussex.

I spent most of the 1990s living in Bangkok. I had a lot of fun there, heard a few pretty weird stories and had some remarkable experiences. Enough, anyway, to write a long story - split into 3 seperate parts.

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The Avenging Buddha

Steve Bailey

First the excitement; a raid on a Tibetan monastery to salvage hidden treasure. A life of luxury ensued; tempered by guilt. Then along came retribution.


The Legend of The Fourth Cart – Part 1

Amidst the chaos of the Tibetan Uprising in March 1959, monks loyal to their God-King fight to keep treasured artefacts from the clutches of invading Chinese soldiers. Four horse-drawn carts full of gold and precious jewels leave Lhasa in the wake of the fleeing Dalai Lama. Three carts are captured, one escapes but then disappears. The legend of The Fourth Cart is borne.

In 1973, in a seedy bar in Bangkok, the sole surviving witness to the fate of The Fourth Cart recounts his tale of buried treasure to a group of brash young English lads. A daring plan to mount a raid on a Tibetan hilltop monastery is hatched, but the ensuing mission ends in tragedy.

For eighteen years, those that returned from Tibet live with guilt.

Then, in 1992, along comes retribution in the form of brutal murder.

 

The Laying of Bones

Steve Bailey

The Legend of The Fourth Cart – Part 3


Sworn to secrecy by the British Intelligence Service over the fate of Khun Sa, DCI Magee is cold-shouldered by his boss and falls foul of office politics. After six months of menial duties and vindictiveness from colleagues, he’s desperate to salvage his reputation and career.

To add to DCI’s Magee’s woes, a mummified body is discovered in a deserted Brighton flat and the thankless task of identifying it is dumped on him. Yet reading the Forensic Report, he’s startled to find that the body’s last meal appears to have been eaten in Tibet 20 years ago.

And that sets DCI Magee thinking. If he could link the body to both The Fourth Cart and Khun Sa, he may just be able to escape his purgatory.

 

Khun Sa

Steve Bailey

The Legend of The Fourth Cart – Part 2


On a sunny afternoon in 1972, a brash young English lad, the owner of a Bangkok bar, takes a stroll through Lumpini Park with his family and friends. At some stage, a joke is cracked, he laughs and places a hand, intimately, on a Thai boy’s shoulder. The event is unremarkable, except that twenty years later, a witness testifies that the boy became Khun Sa, a legendary drug lord from the Golden Triangle.

In May 1992, DCI Magee, the investigating officer in the Avenging Buddha case, has Khun Sa down as his main suspect for a series of brutal murders.

On the trail of the killer, DCI Magee travels to Bangkok to solve the Lumpini Park incident, unaware of the political turmoil about to engulf the country. Caught in the nightmare of civil unrest, DCI Magee is also blissfully unaware that he has been set up by the British Intelligence Service like a goat to catch a tiger.

 

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