Vientiane – Tom Vater

Literary Flits reviews The Man with the Golden Mind

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018tomLeave a Comment

Great review at Literary Flits of my second Detective Maier thriller, The Man with the Golden Mind, from a while back. Somehow this one escaped me altogether. I am again impressed with a Crime Wave Press offering, this one being a Cold War aftermath spy thriller set in a country about which I knew very […]

Tourism woes in Laos in The Nikkei Asian Review

February 19, 2018March 2, 2019tomLeave a Comment

VIENTIANE — It is Saturday afternoon in tourist high season, and Vientiane is very quiet. Most shops are closed for the weekend. A couple of Asian tour groups ascend the Patuxai, the Laotian capital’s answer to the Arc de Triomphe. On every floor, stalls are packed with five-year-old photocopies of the Lonely Planet guide to […]

The Man With The Golden Mind reviewed at Literary Fits

January 31, 2017tomLeave a Comment

The Man with the Golden Mind gets a great review at Literary Fits. “I am again impressed with a Crime Wave Press offering, this one being a Cold War aftermath spy thriller set in a country about which I knew very little: Laos. Tom Vater sets up an intricate and complicated plot which I found […]

The Most Secret Place on Earth nominated for 2010 World Mountain Documentary Festival of Qinghai, China.

July 31, 2010August 18, 2010tomLeave a Comment

Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has been nominated for the prestigious “Jade Kunlun” Awards of the 2010 World Mountain Documentary Festival of Qinghai, China. The film has been nominated for the “Best Director” category. The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA […]

Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos – Japan PremiereJapanese premiere of The Most Secret Place on Earth at the UNHCR Refugee Film Festival

September 23, 2009March 24, 2010tom

Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos – Die größte Militäroperation der CIA (Drehbuch: Marc Eberle/Tom Vater) wird im Oktober beim UNHCR Refugee Film Festival gezeigt. Marc Eberle’s The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), co-written by Tom Vater, has its Japanese premiere at the UNHCR Refugee Film Festival in Tokyo in […]