Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic crime fiction and reportage from Southeast Asia and beyond
I now have a Tom Vater’s Author Page on facebook! Find my newest (and past) articles, news on my books and documentary films here. But there’s more than shameless self promotion. I also post ruminations on books and films and other news related to my work around Asia, my RocknRoll band Pussy & The Learjets, [...]
Bob Baxter, editor-in-chief of TattooRoadTrip.com and past editor-in-chief of the award-winning tattoo magazine Skin & Ink, for 14 years, reviews my new book Sacred Skin and writes that the book is ‘a beautifully organized, visual treat for both tattoo artists and collectors’ and that it is ‘clearly-written, entertaining treatise is packed with fascinating facts and [...]
Every day, we appear to be moving a little closer to a state of affairs where governments could become obsolete. Large parts of the world have always been ruled by people who don’t really qualify as governments, but in recent years, perfectly respectable rulers have also shown signs (not for the first time) that they [...]
One of Germany’s best known writers and TV intellectuals (yes, there‘s such a thing), Roger Willemsen, recently spent three months in Bangkok, writing about the city. Every night, the experienced media professional left his hotel at 6pm to explore the underbelly of Thailand’s capital. The result is Bangkok Noir, a 350 page coffee table book [...]