Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
Japanese actor Chikako Fukuyama’s long journey from Nagoya to Los Angeles, my latest story for Nikkei Asia this week. “I was so happy when Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar (for her lead role in the 2022 hit ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’),” says Japanese actor Chikako Fukuyama, 34. “That gives me hope,” says Fukuyama, who […]
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The Green Panthers – Ebooks of my new dystopian thriller are currently 99cents at Kobo. Get your copy while stocks last…. Meet Clara Green, Emerald, Chartreuse, Olive, Hunter, Juniper and Forest. They are The Green Panthers: a privately sponsored, multi-national underground army, on a mission to hold corporate polluters to account. During the attempted rescue […]
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The Green Panthers Manifesto The Green Panthers fight against the degradation of Planet Earth by any means The Green Panthers combat the fueling of climate change by any means The Green Panthers safeguard global biodiversity by any means The Green Panthers do not answer to governments The Green Panthers cannot be hired, bought or sold […]
Continue ReadingIn the 8th edition of Noir Nation, writer James Newman reviews my latest novel The Monsoon Ghost Image while dissecting the curious Thailand ex-pat literary scene, featuring interviews with Paul French, Angela Savage and Christopher Moore. The third Detective Maier mystery is a taut and crazy spy thriller for our disturbing times. When award-winning German […]
Continue ReadingI recently published The Name’s Maier – Welcome to the Far East, an essay on the world of my fictional detective and his latest mystery in The Monsoon Ghost Image, in Suspense Magazine. Here is an excerpt: Southeast Asia is a fascinating part of the world to live in and write about. The region is […]
Continue ReadingRituals. Killers. Wars. & Sex.: Tibet, India, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka & New York Gripping, absurd, tragic and resplendent – a correspondent’s life on the margins of victory, tragedy, death and sex. I can’t recommend this book enough to anyone remotely interested in the seamier and bloodier side of recent Asian history and […]
Continue ReadingTom Vater’s favorite opening line in literature is Hunter S Thompson’s awesome first words in ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. On a recent trip to California I drove from LA to Fresno. With Hunter in mind, […]
Continue ReadingI liked this story because the characters were planned very well. I say this because they were both American and Arabic. It had an interesting perspective and used the Aramaic language to enhance reader identification. It was a spy story told from the other side of the coin. An interesting read. Great review by Haley […]
Continue ReadingVery proud to have my latest short story, the Morocco set To Kill An Arab, in A Time for Violence, a love letter to the great anthologies of yesteryear, assembling stories by a variety of talents, connected by a singular theme. Other authors include fellow Crime Wave Press stalwarts Tony Knighton, Elka Ray, Andy Rausch […]
Continue ReadingMy first encounter with Scott Nicholson was as formidable and extraordinary as our 19 year friendship. I found him sitting in the surf on a remote beach in the Andaman Islands, in 2000. I was about to go swimming and we said hello to each other, the way two westerners do three thousand miles from […]
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