Authors
Eric Rogers
BooksThailand.com teamed up with Eric Rogers. Eric Rogers caught the travel bug when he went to Scotland as an exchange student from Columbia College. Eric is a traveler, having nourished his soul by visiting more than seventy-five countries. Yet Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand and Cambodia, are the places that capture his imagination far more than any other place, where beautiful people smile and hearts are warm.
Eric has lived in Scotland, France, and England as well as three years in Bangkok and Phuket. He is a Front Sight Distinguished Graduate in multiple firearm disciplines , enjoys martial arts, and riding dual-sport motorcycles with his son, Ethan. He believes that while appreciating each breath it is important to absorb the extraordinary, yield to the astonishing and enjoy the world’s every corner, its culture, its tang, its resonance, and, most of all, its inhabitants.
Eric has just released his novel 'Bangkok Vanishing' the story of Blake Lawrence, a married man with an ideal family, an honorable man who loses his way, who forgets what is important, who struggles to find his way back to the ones who love him most. You’ve heard the rumors, the whispers about Thailand’s illicit back alleys and sordid underground where striking bargirls are rented out nightly on a Wal-Mart scale to rapacious foreigners. Lift the veil of mystery and dive in – enjoy an adventure to Southeast Asia’s most notorious city. Forget the wholesome same-old Bangkok tourist scene and discover lust, murder, adultery, blackmail, kidnapping, confession, and revenge – without ever stepping foot on a plane.
'Bangkok Vanishing' excerpt:
BLAKE LAWRENCE WATCHED MAC EXECUTE Geng and felt what remained of his humanity vanish, any lingering mercy bleeding through the souls of his feet onto the floor where his Bangkok girl slumped. The once vital life in her eyes evaporated as Mac thrust the steel of a kitchen knife through her skull to the hilt, the blade exiting near her ear coated in a thin layer of murky purple blood. Geng, who had at last begun to transform the notion of herself from a skinny nothing for sale to a person of value, to someone worthy of affection, was now dead, her potential lost, an exhausted soul wasted.
Blake loved her. She’d helped him confront his cancer, showed him how to face it down, the solitary thing that had frightened him, because the disease was bulletproof, indestructible, relentless in its pursuit of his breath and days.... To read more please follow this link.
