Opium Dream

Adventurer Lee Rivers, field collector for museums, is onto the hottest find of his career: Kublai Khan’s long missing grave and terracotta warriors.
Even before he camels onto Afghanistan’s Desert of Death with the lovely Hmong princess Meow to spirit 24 of the priceless artifacts out, he narrowly escapes being murdered in Saigon and Bangkok; and mysterious assassins and equally mysterious Guardian Angels dog them on the harrowing escape by Catalina, piloted by his eccentric and best friend Snake.
Only after Rivers has sold the statues to national museums around the world does he learn they embody a terrifying secret that threatens civilization’s very existence. It’s only then that he learns that the woman he’s come to love has an awful secret of her own....