Tom Vater

April 19th, 2013 | Tags: Burma, Crime Wave Press, eBook, Gaijin Cowgirl, Hans Kemp, Hong Kong, Jame DiBiasio, Japan, paperback, Thailand, thriller, Tom Vater, Val Benson | Category: Burma, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand | Leave a comment

After having one of our titles, Mindfulness and Murder in the Top 100 Crime novels on Amazon this week, Crime Wave Press introduces it’s latest thriller: Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio. Gaijin Cowgirl is a high octane adventure introducing Val Benson, flaky Tokyo hostess and utterly unreliable protagonist who stumbles across a map to one [...]

March 10th, 2013 | Tags: action, adventure, Asia, Burma, CIA, comfort women, Crime Wave Press, female hero, female protagonist, Gaijin Cowgirl, heroine, History, Hong Kong, Japan, novel, Thailand, thriller, trafficking, Val Benson, World War II | Category: Burma, Crime Wave Press, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Everyone has a good book in them so they say, Asia’s first English-language crime publishing house looks set to put that adage to the test. Mark Bibby Jackson interviews me about all things Crime Wave Press in this month’s ASIA LIFE Magazine, both in the Thailand and Cambodia edition. I get to talk about crime [...]

November 19th, 2012 | Tags: Asian Noir, Cambodia, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, Dead Sea, Exhibit A, Hans Kemp, Mindfulness and Murder, Nick Wilgus, Sam Lopez, Thailand, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater | Category: Burma, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, North Korea, Thailand, The Philippines, Tibet, Vietnam, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Nice spread and review of my book (with co-author Aroon Thaewchatturat) Sacred Skin on Japanese blog Miyakeaya. Sacred Skin was designed by acclaimed and award-winning London illustrator Austin @ NEW.

May 13th, 2012 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, Blog, book, Hans Kemp, London, Miyakeaya, NEW Design, photography, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: Japan, Thailand | Leave a comment

I just reviewed Jake Adelstein’s Tokyo Vice for the The Devil’s Road, a blog on all things Noir and Hardboiled. Read the full review of this tale of an American journalist on Japan’s crime beat.

January 10th, 2012 | Tags: American writer, book review, crime, Hardboiled, Jake Adelstein, Japan, journalism, noir, non-fiction, pulp, review, The Devil's Road, Toky Vice, Tom Vater, USA, vice, yakuza | Category: Japan, USA | Leave a comment