Action and Adventure
The author celebrates Christmas in Rio, experiences war-like conditions in Haiti and learns how the Inuit hunt whales in Alaska. He survives with odd jobs in Tokyo, runs from the police in Quito and finds out why Jamaican woman are crazy for chicken pills. In Moscow he gets in trouble with the Russian mafia, in Sri Lanka, he discovers the secret of Buddha's tooth, and in Cairo he is haunted by the curse of the Pharaoh.
