Tom Vater is a writer and editor working predominantly in Asia. He has published four novels, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, currently available in English and Spanish, and the Detective Maier trilogy which includes The Cambodian Book of the Dead (2012), its follow-up The Man with the Golden Mind (2013), and finally The Monsoon Ghost Image (2018). His articles on Asian politics, tourism, the environment, minorities, pop and youth culture have been published in many publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Guardian, The Mekong Review, Marie Claire, and Geographical. He is correspondent for Germany's largest independent travel publisher Reise-Know-How in Thailand as well as The Daily Telegraph's Thailand destination expert, and a frequent contributor to the Nikkei Asian Review. He has published several non-fiction books, including the highly acclaimed and bestselling Sacred Skin (with his former wife, photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat), the more recent Burmese Light with photographer Hans Kemp and Cambodia: Journey through the Lad of the Khmer with photographer Kraig Lieb, the best selling illustrated book in Cambodia in 2018/2019.Tom is the co-author of several documentary screenplays, most notably The Most Secret Place on Earth, a feature on the CIA's covert war in 1960s Laos.In his spare time, Tom travels and plays RocknRoll.www.clippings.me/tomvaterwww.tomvater.comhttps://th.linkedin.com/pub/tom-vater/38/520/ba0www.crimewavepresswww.sandscribes.comRead more about this authorRead less about this author