Tom Vater

I have been interviewed about my first novel, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, out now with Crime Wave Press,  on Pat Bertram’s literary blog.

August 25th, 2012 | Tags: adventure fiction, Afghanistan, Author, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, hippie trail, India, Interview, Iran, Kathmandu, London, Nepal, novel, Pakistan, Pat Bertram, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater, travel fiction, Turkey | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

As the Football World Cup opens in South Africa today, I am republishing the only football story I´ve ever written. Watching the World Cup Match between the USA and Iran in Esfahan in 1998, was one of the highlights of my time in Iran. The streets of this beautiful city were crammed with revelers, celebrating [...]

June 11th, 2010 | Tags: Esfahan, football, football game, football history, football match, Football World Cup, historic football match, Iran, Middle East, soccer, sport and politics, Tom Vater, USA, Usa against Iran, world cup | Category: Iran, USA | Leave a comment

When Dan, Tim and Fred, three naive hippies, set off from London to Kathmandu with few funds and a dodgy bus, a drug deal in Pakistan seems like the most common sense way to make the journey pay. But the mountains of the Hindu Kush, a mysterious Frenchman, a set of Iranian Siamese Twins cum nightclub singers, [...]

October 22nd, 2006 | Tags: backpacker, Bernard Trink, Buddhism, crime fiction, Don Messerschmidt, Dragon´s Mouth, drugs, Himalaya, hippy trail, India, Iran, Kathmandu, Nepal, North West Frontier, novel, Orchid Press, Pakistan, Pashtun, Peshawar, Peter Myers, Ron Gluckman, sex, Siamese Twins, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, The Devil´s Road to Kathmandu, thriller, Tom Vater, travel, travel fiction, travel literature | Category: India, Nepal, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment