Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
Name: Tom VaterNationality: German, Asia-basedOccupation: Writer, editorCurrent publication: Tom Vater’s new book SHARKMAN, is out now. Order on Amazon.Recommendations: Where to even start …Two pieces of music that affected me – Exile on Main Street by the Rolling Stones and Bitches Brew by Miles Davis.Two books that affected me – Youth by Joseph Conrad and […]
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Here are the book links to all my titles. Thanks to all my readers for many years of support… these stories have been more than 20 years in the making. Keep reading books! The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu In 1976, four friends – Dan, Fred, Tim and Thierry – are on a bus along the […]
Continue ReadingThe 4th, brand new edition of my bestselling German language guide to the islands in the Gulf of Thailand – Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao is out now! If you have sun & beach at the top of your list, you should love Ko Samui. Because the island offers everything for the perfect […]
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My publisher Next Chapter has released yet another blockbuster anthology of three of my novels thrown together as The Edge of Darkness. This collection includes my first novel, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, my most recent novel, The Green Panthers and the first part of my acclaimed Detective Maier series, The Cambodian Book of the […]
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I occasionally get letters from readers telling me that they loathe throwing money at Amazon to read my work. My publisher, Next Chapter, no longer exclusively deals with Amazon when it comes to ebooks (or any other format) and my books are more widely available now. All my fiction, 5 novels and a novella collection, […]
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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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What do you make of my favorite books on Thailand? Check out my latest rundown for Shepherd.
Continue ReadingI reviewed Van Halen opening for AC/DC in 1984 in Karlsruhe for my local paper. It was the Monsters of Rock festival tour and one of my first writing gigs and first mega rock shows (I had already covered Supertramp and a line-up of similarly easy on the ears performers at the same venue). I […]
Continue ReadingJD Strange aka Bangkok based writer and film producer James Newman interviewed me on Bangkok crime fiction for Strange TV. This is a segment from a longer documentary on Bangkok fiction, currently in production. Thanks, James! Watch the interview here. All my crime fiction titles are currently published by Crime Wave Press.
Continue ReadingI had just reached Don Sak pier, a coastal Thai ferry port for boats to the tourist islands of Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao, when I almost lost my mind. I was at the end of a 10-week, 80-destination travel stint for the British publisher Rough Guides, researching the Thailand chapter for the […]
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