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Yes, there is now a facebook page on The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, my 2005 novel. This new amazing facebook feature will feature news, reviews and updates on this ripping story of three hippies who drove a bus full of drugs from London to Kathamndu in 1976.
There are plans to republish The Devil’s Road to [...]
The end of the backpacker generation? Lonely Planet finally orbited into irrelevance? China overrun by western hippies?
And is Chris Taylor´s new novel Harvest Season a worthy follow-up to Alex Garland´s The Beach?
Find out on Tuesday, May 24th, when I will be grilling author Chris Taylor on his recently published novel, at [...]
Tom Vater’s first novel, ‘The Devil’s Road To Kathmandu’, was published in Hong Kong with Dragon’s Mouth Press, an imprint of Orchid Press, in 2006.
Peter Myers - Lifestyle + Travel
Three friends, two cities, one bus and a seemingly endless supply of narcotics: a typical GAP year? Maybe not. It’s 1976, and the lads’ road to [...]
Tom Vater’s first novel, ‘The Devil’s Road To Kathmandu’, was published in Hong Kong with Dragon’s Mouth Press, an imprint of Orchid Press in 2006.
Don Messerschmidt - The Nepali Times
Follow the drugs, the money, the past. An old hippie returns to Kathmandu after 25 years.
The Devil’s Road by Tom Vater is a great read. It’s [...]
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, [...]