Never Push an Elephant, by William V. Timmons, is a fast-paced, gritty, and often humorous novel about one gutsy, long-in-the-tooth character, Bill St. John, as he thumbs his nose at the idea of retirement and makes Rambo seem inert. Part-time missionary and former CIA operative, St. John agrees to rescue a billionaire's college-age daughter who has been snatched by the son of a drug kingpin and is being held somewhere in the dreaded Golden Triangle between Thailand, Laos, and Burma. Through the use of a plan of attack only a seasoned spook could conceive, and supported by outrageous diversionary devices that are as clever as they are effective, St. John and his team parasail into hell...and then must find a way out. Along the way, they are aided by a Bible smuggler, a Buddhist monk, elephants, and assorted nefarious characters. Written by someone who knows first-hand the exploits of a clandestine operation, readers will thrill at being air-dropped into the heart of the action.