On North Face jacket

I read van Lustbader because I'm a fan of Asia, so I'm hoping to learn and experience parts of the continent that I don't know. Plus, I'm a fan of thrillers and suspense novels. So I like the idea of thrillers set in Asia. Unfortunately, I can't think of any I've read that satisfied me. I'm beginning to think Lustbader totally makes up his stuff, pulling phony mysticism out of his ass. He certainly created a false Vietnam. He also has an American soldier go into the hills of the Shan states of Burma and become the top druglord. Before him, however, a Vietnamese general does away with all the Chinese generals who fled there in 1949 following the communist takeover of China. How credible is that? Not. How credible is it that this American soldier could then takeover from the Vietnamese commie general? Not very. Then how credible is it that it sets up a nuclear facility in the middle of communist Vietnam? With a Soviet scientist he just happened to rescue. About as credible as him wearing a North Face jacket. Not very at all.