When Will the Killer Bikes Come for Chuwit?
New York Times [13th August 2003] These days the big money here is all on when not if — they will whack Chuwit Kamolvisit, the massage parlor tycoon. After all, this is a gambling town. We already know...
View ArticleMeeting Death With a Cool Heart
New York Times [13th January 2005] IN 22 years of using Bangkok’s airport, Don Muang, the busiest in Southeast Asia, I have never known it to be anything but crowded. On New Year’s Eve, five days after...
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The Writing Life
The Washington Post [29th May 2005] The big break of a writer’s career comes — unexpectedly — at a wild, drunken party in a remote Thai village. “Shun security,” I advise aspiring novelists when they...
View ArticleFaces of Bangkok.
The Guardian [25th June 2005] On the edge of Bangkok’s seedy Arab quarter, which squats between the stations of Nana and Ploenchit on the Skytrain, some magnificent steel and glass palaces have sprung...
View ArticleDemocracy in Thin Air
New York Times [27th November 2005] LAST week, Nepal’s Maoist rebels and a coalition of seven opposition parties agreed on a program to try to end direct rule by King Gyanendra. The accord was the...
View ArticleThe Quiet Farang
New York Times [19th August 2006] Bangkok THE story of the cute white girl in the red tartan bonnet who had been dead 10 years burst into the Thai news media just as another equally harrowing local...
View ArticleProvence
During those austere postwar decades before travel overseas became almost routine for us in Britain, folk memories of a more exotic, prettier, friendlier, sunnier and above all warmer Elsewhere lurked...
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John Burdett On “The Godfather of Kathmandu”
Many trace the modern crime thriller back to Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. A still more venerable ancestor would be Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In both cases literary giants used acts of aggravated...
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