JUNGLE LAWS

About the Book

The main character of this story, Tony Pavone, a Romanian constructor engineer, was hired by contract to work in the capital of Greece for a series of industrial buildings, as a result of the Greek investors' favorable appreciation for his professional capacity and promptness in releasing on time the orders he had received.

An unfortunate happening made him get contaminated with radioactive toxin's whose poisonous substance burst out very strongly every four weeks causing him each time severe paralysis for at least three days running.

During this period he was hallucinating fallen into a coma which could lead to a fatal end !! But being built with a sturdy body and having a high willpower to survive, he fought assiduously the malady and after two years of fear and death menace, the toxins got gradually lessened to a total dissipation.

He fell in love with a beautiful Greek girl and decided to marry her. Their relationship got closer and closer and after seven years of activity in Athens, they made plans to go for a longer vacation to Bucharest, Tony Pavone's birth place. He intended in his hidden thoughts, not to return to Greece any more aiming to start business in his native country.

About the Author

Dumitru Crac was born in 1930 in Bucharest, Romania. Part of a very poor family, he had an extremely difficult childhood and adolescence from which his book Live Begins at Forty was inspired. He has refused to adhere to the communist ideology in Romania and in 1982 he immigrated to America.