Books by Martin Booth

A historical overview of the marijuana debate recounts how cannabis became outlawed throughout the western world, describing the medical, religious, political, legal, and social factors that contributed to current opinions while revealing the impact of cannabis legislation on the global economy. Reprint.

After accidentally waking an alchemist's son from a long, long sleep, Tim and Pip befriend their new friend Sebastian and work with him to stop his recently awakened enemy from going forth with his evil deed of making a human man out of dead materials. Reprint.

A fascinating biography of the author of the Sherlock Holmes series reveals a man who sought to live up the Victorian ideal of manhood and who was loath to be remembered as the creator of Holmes.

Traces the more than two-thousand-year history of the Triads, the one-time Chinese secret society that has evolved into an international criminal fraternity, bound by ritual and archaic oaths, involved in world-wide extortion, gambling, prostitution, money laundering, fraud, narcotics, immigrant smuggling, and other criminal enterprises. Reprint.

Stationed in Lebanon, far from the London intellectual society to which he aspires, minor poet James Elroy Flecker falls in love with T.E. Lawrence, the spy he is assigned to control.

A personal account of the author's coming-of-age in 1950s Hong Kong describes how he moved to the region with his family at the age of seven, his experiences of early adolescence as a British citizen in a Chinese society, and his witness to the conflicts between his Chinese-embracing mother and bigoted father. By the author of Hiroshima Joe. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Joe Sandingham, a down-and-out ex-British Lieutenant living in a seedy Hong Kong hotel, struggles to maintain hope and trust and obliterate from his memory the horrors of his years in a Japanese prison camp. Reprint.

On his 80th birthday, a British citizen arrested in the 1950s for spying in the Soviet Union looks back on his life in Russia--his harrowing life in the "gulag" and his quiet life 20 years later in the village.

Taking a job in the Scottish Highlands after graduating college, young Alec Marquand makes a life-changing discovery before entering World War I, during which he serves as an on-board medic. By the author of Hiroshima Joe. Reprint.

This full-length history of opium uncovers the multi-faceted nature of this remarkable narcotic and the bittersweet effects of a simple poppy with a deadly legacy.

Having heard the rumor that panthers had been spotted near their camping area in the West Country of England, Pati and Simon decide to find one themselves, but when they encounter a mother and cubs, the two youngsters find themselves in a very dangerous situation.

Discusses the secret Chinese Triad societies, ancient organized criminal groups that are now entrenched in North America and that pose a greater threat than the Mafia or the Colombian drug cartels.

Known as Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly--to his neighbors in the southern Italian town where he lives, an inconspicuous gentleman who spends his days painting, idling at local cafes, and getting together with his friend, the town priest, over a glass of brandy, discovers that his mysterious past is about to be revealed and a deadly menace is closing in on him.

Jet, a black Labrador, was well-trained by a young English poacher, Fred Parry. When Fred is caught and jailed shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Jet is requisitioned by the army, where her training stands her in good stead. This is the fast-paced story about a remarkable dog whom the reader soon comes to love.