... the road, our lungs well-nigh spent With inhaling earth’s dry and turgid air?   But no, dear one. We shall take them with us, Your Brother Ass, my Sister Mule, Become Brother Tiger, Sister Panther, And we shall prowl in play through jungled vines And romp and roll over plains, Our cries of joy like lightning, Our shouts thunder, Our secret glee a hurricane.

The way he was going, Frank figures, it took Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, the most famous of all Harle

..., Rolls-Royce-driving Chinese gentleman who went by the sobriquet 007. "I called him 007 because he was a fucking Chinese James Bond." Double-oh Seven took Lucas upcountry, to the Golden Triangle, the heavily jungled, poppy-growing area where Thailand, Burma, and Laos come together.   "It wasn't too bad, getting up there," says Lucas. "We was in trucks, in boats. I might have been on every ...