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    King of the Road
    King of the Road
    King of the Road
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    King of the Road

    By Francis Chang

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    Sombat - a young man living in chiang mai in northern thailand with a passion for the honda phanthom, his motorbike. Some vistors to town lead to a deadly road race around the ring road of chiang mai

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrancis Chang
    Release dateOct 23, 2012
    ISBN9781301745531
    King of the Road
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    Francis Chang

    Francis Chang is a resident of Chiang Mai, the city in the mountains of North Thailand. He is the owner of a travel and tour agency. He enjoys writing, watercolour, teaching and playing ukulele

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      King of the Road - Francis Chang

      ‘King of the Road’

      By Francis Chang

      Copyright 2012

      Francis Chang

      Smashwords Edition

      231012

      Sombat awoke to the shrill alarm of his mobile. He grappled for the phone still in the fog of sleep. Whatever time had he got home?

      He recalled racing around the Ring-Road the previous night with his pack of biker friends, pushing his bike to the limit and gleefully taking the money that they had all bet on who was to be the first to complete the circuit.

      Sombat had saved long and hard for his Honda Phantom and although it was not new he worshipped it.

      Unlike the previous models, the Phantom that Sombat owned was a 200 cc 4-stroke and Sombat washed and waxed it every day, lovingly applying polish to the chrome, cleaning the saddle and blackening the

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