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Stranded

Stranded
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): Perhentian Islands
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Bruised from the breakdown of her marriage, Esther Lomax needs to get away, and Malaysia’s unspoilt shores seem the perfect place. But a day’s boat trip takes a desperate turn when Esther and six other holidaymakers are taken to...

Temple of a Thousand Faces

Temple of a Thousand Faces
  • Author(s): John Shors
  • Location(s): Angkor (Siem Reap), Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

Now with Temple of a Thousand Faces, he brings to life the legendary temple of Angkor Wat, an unrivaled marvel of ornately carved towers and stone statues. There, in a story set nearly a thousand years ago, an empire...

TENDER DECEIT #1

TENDER DECEIT #1
  • Author(s): H Y Hanna
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

He was her first love… Now he could be the man who wants her dead. Leah Fisher returns to her childhood home of Singapore after her father dies in mysterious circumstances and finds that the boy she once loved...

Thailand: Deadly Destination

Thailand: Deadly Destination
  • Author(s): John Stapleton
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The daily robbing, bashing, drugging, extortion and murder of foreign tourists on Thai soil, along with numerous scandals involving unsafe facilities and well established scams, has led to frequent predictions that Thailand’s multi-billion dollar tourist industry will self-destruct. Instead...

The 13th Valley

The 13th Valley
  • Author(s): John M del Vecchio
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

An excellent novel in the jungles of Vietnam, during the war. A poignant description.

the Art of Hearing Heartbeats

the Art of Hearing Heartbeats
  • Author(s): Jan-Philipp Sendker
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s to modern

A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, ‘The Art of Hearing Heartbeats’ spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his...

The Backpacker

The Backpacker
  • Author(s): John Harris
  • Location(s): Australia, India, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Leaving the blinding sand for the cool shade of the trees, I walked carefully through the undergrowth to where Dave, using two twigs as chopsticks, was picking up a freshly severed human finger… John’s trip to India starts badly...

The Big Mango

The Big Mango
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

From the Big Apple, to the Big Orange, to the Big Mango. It does have a kind of nutty logic to it. Bangkok is about as far as you can go without falling off the edge of the world,...

The Breath of Night

The Breath of Night
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s and Modern

Julian Tremayne is a missionary priest in a remote Philippine village during the Marcos dictatorship. After championing the Communist rebels, he finds himself imprisoned for the murder of a local military commander. Three decades later, following his own mysterious...

The Cambodian Book of the Dead

The Cambodian Book of the Dead
  • Author(s): Tom Vater
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and second half 20th century

Private eye and former war reporter, Maier is sent to Cambodia to track down the missing heir to a Hamburg coffee empire. His search leads him into the darkest corners of the country’s history, through the Killing Fields of...

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