* A new millennium, wildlife-based novel of 544 pages featuring two middle-aged ex-pats in Thailand caught up in an adventure they´d rather have avoided.

* "Big Time Butterfly" describes the exploits of these two gentlemen who, ably abetted by a local whiz-kid half their age, struggle to bring a rare butterfly specimen from Borneo to a Californian millionaire visiting the Thailand tourist trap, Phuket. It sounds easy - but the trio soon learn that it´s not when Hong Kong thugs appear in the jungle.

* TWO novels combined into one, the first part explains how the slightly out of their depth heroes became entangled in the Big Time Butterfly saga in the first place by way of a rogue Thai elephant.

* An authentic Far Eastern background with which past and future tourists to Thailand and Malaysia can equate.

* A unique combination of science, local culture, religion, history, and even romance, blended with nostalgia for the "good old days". Armed Borneo Iban tribesmen add a novel minor war to the brew.