Ron Milos publishes first novel - "The Kush" It is part science fiction and is based in part on Peace Corps years (69 -70) in Afghanistan



Ron Milos publishes first novel - "The Kush" It is part science fiction and is based in part on Peace Corps years (69 -70) in Afghanistan

"The Kush" is part science fiction and is based in part on Ron Milos' Peace Corps yers (69 -70) in Afghanistan.

This is a summary:

1973. Peace Corps Volunteer Greg Sobieski thinks something is happening in the Hindu Kush Mountain involving blue radiance, sickness, and death. No one believes him, not the Peace Corps and certainly not the Afghans who view foreigners as incompetent and stupid. While investigating, a massive earthquake occurs. Greg is assumed dead and Russia invades Afghanistan.

1989. The Soviets confide to the U.S. the reason for their invasion and request help to search the Kush. A U.S. "geological mission" gains Afghan permission to climb the mountain with the only Russian acceptable to the ruling tribal leaders, a professor from Afghanistan's single university.

The Americans do not suspect that the professor has his own agenda and that rebel Islamic fundamentalists are following them. They do know that a still-young Greg was recently seen on the Kush emitting an azure glow and is rumored to have been involved in the Soviet aggression.

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By Eng. Ahmad Seyer (82.205.191.34) on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 5:56 am: Edit Post

I need to know that Mr Ron Milos the writer of (THE KUSH) is that one who used to be a Peace Corp and our English teacher in 1970 in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan.

I lost the address of Mr. Ron and i know this much that he is from New Jersey and married with Barbara.

Please reply this as soon as possible, because he does know that how much i am welling to contact him.

i need his email and contact address.

with kind regards

Seyer