“The Falcon” set a cracking pace across a dusty field in Tboung Khmum, in the east of Cambodia, before stopping and pointing to the dirt at his feet.
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“That’s the place,” he said, wiping the sweat from his brow in the sweltering heat.
On this spot nearly 30 years ago he dug up a rare, gilded bronze Buddhist statue believed to have once belonged to an ancient king.
