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The best-selling co-author of "No One Here Gets Old Alive tells Gripping stories from the bars and back streets of Bangkok. In the intriguing pages of" Bangkok Confidential, meet a piano teacher who ended up on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, an insurance agent who became a modern bounty hunter, an advertising executive who photographs the city's most beautiful bargirls, a Catholic priest who has lived and worked in the slums for 35 years, and three Vietnam War Veterans who opened a go-go bar. These are among 25 amazing profiles of Bangkok's expatriates who transformed themselves after leaving home. This book will take readers into the mean streets of one of the world's most interesting cities, showing what it is like to be a Foreigner Living Abroad, painting a picture of an exotic Asia that has not been touched since "The Ugly American. |
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