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My first novel, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, was published 20 years ago by Dragon’s Mouth Press in Hong Kong. In 2012, it was republished by Crime Wave Press and in 2021, it was picked up by Next Chapter where it’s currently out as ebook, paperback, audio book and hardback. Xplora Editorial have published a […]
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Kolkata Noir received a new review! ….I found the last novella scary and imaginative, scary because if this does happen it is going to be a terrifying world to live in. Overall, an interesting, dark and in some ways chilling set of novellas based on Kolkata’s past, present and future. Read the full review here.
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Laura at Bookscaretc wrote a great review for The Devil’s Rod to Kathmandu. ….Author Tom Vater is described as working predominantly in Asia, and as well as fiction has been a travel writer. And it is clear from his writing that he has both a deep knowledge and a great love for the environments he […]
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The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu is out in a new paperback edition with Next Chapter. ‘The Devil’s Road To Kathmandu’ is a tense, fast paced and kaleidoscopic pulp thriller, following the lives of two generations of drifters who become embroiled in a saga of sex, drugs and murder on the road between London and the […]
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My very first novel, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, first published by Dragon’s Mouth Press (HK) in 2006, then republished by Crime Wave Press (HK) in 2013, then published in Spanish by Xplora Editorial in 2014, has got a new and wonderful lease of life. Next Chapter Publishing are putting out a newly edited edition […]
Continue ReadingTroubled Waters, the first novella I wrote with Laure Siegel for Ecoute Magazine, the story of a surfer who dies under mysterious circumstances on La Reunion Island, is out now in Le Phare de L’Enfer (The Lighthouse from Hell), a new anthology of crime stories for French learners in Germany. Our fourth novella ‘I Want […]
Continue ReadingKathmandu, Camino al Infierno, the Spanish edition of The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, published back in March by Xplora Editorial is reviewed extensively at Leer y Viajar. The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu is available from Crime Wave Press both as Kindle ebook and paperback.
Continue ReadingThe Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, my first novel, originally published by Orchid Press in 2005 is back in print, with Crime Wave Press, Asia’s English language crime fiction imprint. You can buy the paperback edition from Amazon. The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu is also available as a Kindle ebook, as a NOOK Book from Barnes […]
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