war – Tom Vater

Books: Doing laps with the Chinese ’emperor’, in Nikkei Asia

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023tom

My first story in 2023 is for Nikkei Asia – about a new espionage novel by a former British secret service agent and journalist who takes a close look at China’s ambitions in Taiwan. In two months, China will attack Taiwan. China’s president has decided on reunification by force. More than 150.000 troops are estimated […]

Interviewed on Bangkok’s red light museum for CNN

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019tomLeave a Comment

I am interviewed by veteran correspondent Richard Ehrlich in his thorough exhumation of all things Patpong and the the opening of the Patpong Museum, which recounts the history of what is perhaps the world’ most notorious red light district in downtown Bangkok and its historical connection to the Vietnam War, in this thorough exhumation of […]

Paul Brazill interviews The Man with the Golden Mind

November 1, 2016November 1, 2016tomLeave a Comment

Crime writer Paul Brazill interviews me about my current crime fiction projects including the republication of my 1960s CIA thriller The Man with the Golden Mind, featuring former war correspondent turned Detective Maier. The second Maier mystery is currently published by Crime Wave Press in ebook format. Julia Rendel asks Maier to investigate the twenty-five […]

Return to Bokor Mountain, Cambodia

July 31, 2015May 25, 2022tom4 Comments

I’ve just been back to Bokor Hill Sation, one of Cambodia‘s most beautiful and haunted spots. Rising a thousand meter above the kingdom’s southeastern coast, Bokor has been developed three times. In the 1920s, the French cleared some of the jungle on the way up, built a road with the help of 9000 kulis […]