Author: tom

Tom Vater is a (sometimes) best-selling writer and freelance journalist, working predominantly in Asia for the past 25 years. He has published more than 20 books, including 4 crime fiction novels. *** Check out Tom’s gritty, eclectic crime fiction: The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, first published in 2006, currently available in English and Spanish. The Detective Maier Trilogy: The Cambodian Book of the Dead (2013), The Man with the Golden Mind (2014) and The Monsoon Ghost Image (2018) His new collection of novellas, Kolkata Noir is out with Next Chapter soon. *** Besides his fiction, Tom has published more than twenty non-fiction books, including the highly acclaimed Sacred Skin with photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat, and the more recent Burmese Light with photographer Hans Kemp. In 2014, he published Cambodia: Journey through the Land of the Khmer with long time Lonely Planet photographer Kraig Lieb which became Cambodia’s bestselling illustrated book in 2018. Tom is the co-author of several documentary screenplays, most notably The Most Secret Place on Earth, a feature on the CIA’s covert war in 1960s Laos. Tom has published numerous guides to Thailand and Cambodia for Reise Know How and for Moon Books, and he is a Daily Telegraph destination expert. His article are published in The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Guardian, Nikkei Asia, Marie Claire, Geographical and many other publications.