Book Recounts Peter S. Adler's two Years in Rural India

In 1966, as the war in Vietnam intensified, 50 freshly minted college graduates were invited to train for a possible Peace Corps assignment to India. Of the 50 who began training in a Texas border-town called Zapata, only a handful - 'The Dirty Dozen' - finished the two-year tour.

"India-40 and the Circle of Demons: A Memoir of Death, Sickness, Love, Friendship, Corruption, Political Fanatics, Drugs, Thugs, Psychosis and Illumination in the US Peace Corps," (published by Xlibris in May 2017), part memoir and part creative non-fiction, recounts a life-changing journey in which death, disease, drugs and political crazies took a toll. "The true heart of this story," says Peter S. Adler "is the rare journey people sometimes make deep into the soul of an entirely different civilization and as a result, find their own." For more details about the book, please visit https://www.amazon.com/India-40-Circle-Demons-Peter-Adler/dp/1543421164.

An excerpt from the book:

"There is a cave that is called India. It is vast, with untold numbers of chambers and side caves. Inside, it is hotter than hell. And at the center of the cave is Shiva, who is forty-seven stories tall and is cooking his breakfast in a frying pan over red-hot coals. The frying pan is the size of a soccer field, sizzling with oil, and there are a few strips of bacon in the middle of all that grease getting crispy as the fat runs out of them. That was my chums and I. We were the bacon."

"India-40 and the Circle of Demons: A Memoir of Death, Sickness, Love, Friendship, Corruption, Political Fanatics, Drugs, Thugs, Psychosis, and Illumination in the US Peace Corps," recalls what was at first a bewildering new culture that then became progressively more comfortable but never less than completely astonishing. It is simultaneously a chronicle of national service during the Vietnam War era, a growing up story and a travel narrative.

"India-40 and the Circle of Demons: A Memoir of Death, Sickness, Love, Friendship, Corruption, Political Fanatics, Drugs, Thugs, Psychosis, and Illumination in the US Peace Corps"
By Peter S. Adler
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 406 pages | ISBN 9781543421156
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 406 pages | ISBN 9781543421163
E-Book | 406 pages | ISBN 9781543421170
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author
Peter S. Adler lives and works in Honolulu. He is a planner and well-known mediator and specializes in cooperation strategies for organizations and agencies involved in complex energy, public health, agriculture and natural resource challenges. In 1967 and 1968, he was a Peace Corps volunteer stationed in a village halfway between Mumbai and Goa. He and his roommate built schools, killed rats and started poultry businesses. Adler is the author of three previous books: "Beyond Paradise" (Oxbow Press1993), "Oxtail Soup" (Oxbow Press, 2001) and "Eye of the Storm Leadership" (RIS, 2008).

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