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Back Cover:"The account of Dr. Chung and his family will inspire you to believe in second chances and miracles and the God who gives them both."-Max Lucado, New York Times best-selling authorMy name is Vinh Chung.This is a story that spans two continents, ten decades, and eleven thousand miles.When I was three and a half years old, my family was forced to flee Vietnam in June 1979, a place we had never heard of somewhere in the heartland of America.Several weeks later my family lay half-dead from dehydration in a derelict fishing boat jammed with ninety-three refugees lost in the middle of the South China Sea. We arrived in the United States with nothing but the clothes on our backs and unable to speak a single word of English.Today my family holds twenty-one university degrees.
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Tim Downs is an author, speaker, and communication consultant who co-hosts the popular weekly podcast, The Communication Guys. After graduating from college in 1976 he created a daily comic strip, Downstown, which was syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate (Doonesbury, Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side) from 1980 to 1986. His cartooning has appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide. Tim has written nine novels in the mystery/suspense genre, beginning with Shoofly Pie (2003) , followed by Chop Shop (2004) , PlagueMaker (2006) , Head Game (2007) , First the Dead (2008) , Less than Dead (2008) , Ends of the Earth (2009) , Wonders Never Cease (2010) , and Nick of Time (2011) . His most recent work is a memoir, Where the Wind Leads (April 2014) . Tim lives in Cary, North Carolina, with his wife Joy.
