Publisher's Synopsis
ON THE TRACK An Autobiographical Novel D.L. Jones ON THE TRACK is a book that operates on a number of levels: it is a search, a tracking down of a murderer and a mystery as to who did it. It is a search through many lands people and events in the volatile, crazy 1960's. Take a strange journey through Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Tibet, Kashmir, India and finally to hipster San Francisco. It is a search (through dreams and visions) into the sub-conscious mind of the private detective Dave Jones, a cynical westerner, who seeks but is unaware of the true nature of his journey. It is also the story of the other main character, Johnny Wilkulda an Australian aboriginal tracker, seeking a higher truth for himself and all others. Meet Robinson, the 'LSD Professor', who has taken the road of mind-expanding drugs, the 'fast track'. Meet Evie Rush, too beautiful to be a murderer? Meet Collins the homicidal homicide detective; meet Arla, the beautiful jazz singer in big trouble in Bangkok; meet Margaret, haunted, looking for love in a rubber plantation in Malaysia; meet the Cambodian Prince in love with music, trying to stop war entering his country; meet Meera the Indian girl, stuck in a whorehouse in Laos and seeing visions of a new Messiah. Meet them and many other strange and fabulous, weird and wonderful characters in ON THE TRACK, based on a true story. Large Format Paperback 7" x 10" 581 pages The author is a poet and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu, Kashmiri and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa
