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The Man With The Golden Mind, republished as ebook, paperback, large print hard back and audio book by Next Chapter very soon!
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The Man With The Golden Mind, republished as ebook, paperback, large print hard back and audio book by Next Chapter very soon!
Continue Reading‘New museum in city’s infamous Patpong red light zone reveals the CIA agents who used to hold court in its go-go bars’ I was interviewed by Richard S. Ehrlich on the CIA’s history in Bangkok in Asia Times today for his article ‘Glorifying sex and CIA in Vietnam War-era Bangkok‘. “A photo of one of […]
Continue ReadingI 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Man with the Golden Mind, the second Detective Maier Mystery, has been selected as a Must Read title for 2019 by CQI Magazine (pages 44-45). Julia Rendel asks Detective Maier to investigate the twenty-five year old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in […]
Continue ReadingGreat 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 […]
Continue Reading“The Plain of Jars, what it’s a symbol of, is how those people on the vague frontiers, those people in the Third World, those people we never see, we never know about, we never hear, can be vaporised, wiped off the face of the earth without people back here even knowing about it.” My obituary […]
Continue ReadingMy novel The Man with the Golden Mind, out later this month with Exhibit A Books, gets a great review at Looking For A Good Book. The second Maier Mystery takes the German detective to Laos and back in time to the CIA’s secret war in Indochina in the 1960s and 70s. “This novel is […]
Continue ReadingWriter Terry Irving has interviewed me about my forth coming thriller Tbe Man With The Golden Mind. Rather than the standard Q&A, Terry has furnished me with template for a movie pitch and I have tried to fill in the gaps accordingly. Read on at Tired of Talking about Myself!!!
Continue ReadingThe Man with the Golden Mind, the second Detective Maier Mystery and follow-up to The Cambodian Book of the Dead is out in the US and UK with Exhibit A Books in April.
Continue ReadingOn a recent trip to Cambodia, I noticed that my first non fiction book Beyond the Pancake Trench is still being sold as a bootleg photocopy in Siem Reap bookshops. I was browsing the shelves of a pirate DVD shop in Phnom Penh a couple days ago, when I found, much to my surprise, that […]
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