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For travelers seeking a change of pace, the Live & Work guides will help steer the way to a fresh start -- whether living in a home in Paris, France, or starting up a new business in Sydney, Australia. These guides provide concrete, practical information on how to make the move to a new country. Rules, regulations, traditions and culture are a few of the areas covered in-depth. There are other obstacles, such as quirks in the local language, or how much the taxation on income costs, that are answered in these guides. Even retirement is covered, giving a much needed alternative to heading south for Florida! Each guide is broken down into easy-to-read sections on living arrangements, where to look for employment, social activities, and the like. LIVE & WORK guides will prepare the bold adventurer for anything, from the short stay abroad, to a new start in a land where everything is fresh and new. -- Complete lists of contacts for everything from potential employers to real estate agents, local school boards to insurance agencies -- Packed with essential information (weather statistics, neighborhood descriptions, etc.) to assist readers in choosing a place to stay -- for a short time, or a lifetime

Border Policeman Ishmael Khan has spent his life in the stunning mountains of the Hindu Kush tracking smugglers. But his current mission is to find out what is happening to the foreign backpackers who have been disappearing.Raseem Hasni dreams of wealth, status and proving to his father that he is a good businessman. Raseems business is running heroin out of Pakistan using foreign mules he intimidates into working for him.Matt Peterson is depressed and in danger of losing his job. Hes read and re-read his dead fiancees favorite travel books and decides to resign his job and travel to the mountains of Pakistan, where they had planned to spend their honeymoon trekking.Annie MacDonald is fed up and stuck in a dead-end job in London where she recently lost out on a promotion to someone with old-school connections. What better way to kick-start her life than resigning her job, taking her grandfathers inheritance, and heading to his beloved Pakistan looking for adventure?Four lives come together in the remote and spectacular mountains bordering Afghanistan and explode in a deadly cocktail of treachery, betrayal and violence. Written with a deep love of Pakistan and the Pakistani people, Mule Train will sweep you from Karachi in the south to the Shandur Pass in the north, through the dangerous borderland alongside Afghanistan, in an adventure that will keep you gripped throughout.