Author Description

A great adventure novel should keep the reader on the edge of their seat with a constant hum of suspense. Keep a story moving, even between dramatic plot points. When you've completed your first draft, go back and read it through for pacing and eliminate any descriptive moments that slow the story down. Kim, aka Kimball O'Hara, is the orphan son of a British soldier and a half-caste opium addict in India. While running free through the streets of Lahore as a child he befriends a British secret service agent. Later, attaching himself to a Tibetan Lama on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life, Kim becomes the Lama's disciple but is also used by the British to carry messages to the British commander in Umballa. Kim's trip with the Lama along the Grand Trunk Road is only the first great adventure in the novel...