Overview

When twelve-year-old VIKA, the son of a vanished poet, pens a simple verse about hope, Myanmar's brutal regime brands it treason. His arrest sparks outrage-and draws the attention of Kae Zhang, leader of Article 5, an international organization fighting torture and political repression. But as Kae pushes deeper into the junta's shadow networks, she discovers the regime's most feared weapon: the Metal Viper, a military leader who kills ruthlessly without compassion. To save one child, Kae and her team must outwit a monster born of terror-and escape a system built on lies.

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""An emotionally powerful journey through one of the most repressive lands on the planet, Metal Viper immerses us in the raw, poignantly human side of the human rights struggle. Lovett and Schultz have crafted both a gripping tale and a compelling reminder of the wrenching toll of tyranny."" - Eliot Pattison, Edgar Award-winning author of The Skull Mantra

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Sarah Lovett writes international and psychological thrillers about ordinary people forced into extraordinary choices. She is the coauthor of METAL VIPER, set against the shadow networks of modern Myanmar. Lovett is the creator of the bestselling Dr. Sylvia Strange psychological-thriller series (Random House; Simon & Schuster), inspired by her work researching criminal cases for the New Mexico Attorney General's Office. During a pause from the darkest subjects while raising her daughter, she collaborated with former CIA officer Valerie Plame on Blowback and Burned for Penguin; Blowback is under option for film (screenplay by Nicole Saad). Beyond crime and espionage, Lovett authored 35+ titles in the award-winning Extremely Weird children's series (recognized by the National Science Foundation and adapted as a network TV special). A Rockefeller Foundation grantee and former Padua Hills guest playwright, she continues to explore the costs of secrecy, the uses of power, and human resilience. Ron Schultz has written, co-written and edited 30 published books on social innovation, meditation, emergence, science, and entrepreneurship. In 2014, he received the Social Innovation Leadership Award from the World CSR Congress. Among his books are: Creating Good Work - The World's Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); The Complex Buddhist - Doing Good in a Challenging World, (Emergent Publications 2015); Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation through Complexity, (Perseus Books, 1998, Emergent Publications, 2023) and Unconventional Wisdom - Twelve Remarkable Innovators Tell How Intuition Can Revolutionize Decision Making (HarperCollins, 1994). In addition to his non-fiction book publishing credentials, Ron has written two Thriller series: The Dorje Shapiro Investigations and The Dangerous Places series with Sarah Lovett. Metal Viper is the first book in that series, Ron has written hundreds of nationally published magazine articles, and has had an extensive career in television and film. His dozens of TV and movie credits include, according to IMDB, one of the finest Movies of the Week produced to date, The Switch (aired January1991, CBS), and one of the worst feature films ever made, NightRaiders, now a cult classic. He also wrote six of the first thirty-six episodes of the internationally renowned children's television program, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. He was also a staff writer on the cartoon series, ZORRO.Ron has spoken and lectured at: The Skoll World Forum, the World CSR Congress, the Social Enterprise World Forum, the Oxford Jam and numerous Social Enterprise Alliance Summits. The universities at which he has spoken include: Trinity College, Dublin, Oxford University, MIT, UCLA, Adelphi University, and the Academy of Management's National Conference. Ron did his undergraduate work at California State University, Northridge, which has recently accepted his archives for its collection.

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