It has also made Kirgizstan a rare example of a country that has both a Russian and an American military base on its territory and only 30km (20 miles) apart.
Film studios see the built-in fan base from his books as a boon, while publishers see him as that rare commodity an author with Hollywood ties, capable of engineering his own big-budget film adaptations.
The girl who played third base in her softball team and loved reruns of Hannah Montana learned she had a rare breast cancer that appears in less than 1 percent of total cases called secretory carcinoma.