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The Monk’s Hour    by Ken Winkler
Price: $4.99 USD. 76050 words. Published by booksmango  on April 12, 2011. .

The Monk’s Hour is the second book of a trilogy involving Tim Adams, ex intelligence operative and Vietnam Vet. Following his experiences in Never Recovered, Adams is approached in California to investigate the death of an art collector in Thailand.
Never Recovered - WWII Gold in the Himalayas    by Ken Winkler
Price: $4.99 USD. 84130 words. Published by booksmango  on April 12, 2011. .

Former intelligence operative and ex-Vietnam War soldier, social worker and teacher Tim Adams has spent five years in exile from both his time in Asia as well as an espionage mess that ended badly in San Francisco.
This Thing of Darkness    by D.J. Mitchell
Price: $1.99 USD. 21170 words. Published on August 25, 2011. .

When peacemakers Sam Winslow and Richard Hendrix seek to better understand a war, they find themselves in Sri Lanka's no man's land. They soon learn that all is not as it seems-- and that neither side wants the truth known. But their greatest challenge lies ahead, as unexpected violence threatens both their lives and their sanity.
Skytrain to Murder    by Dean Barrett
Price: $2.99 USD. 78600 words. Published on August 29, 2011. .

Running low on funds, ex-CIA agent Scott Sterling moves into an apartment over a Bangkok bar. He teaches scuba diving and does occasional investigative work usually involving missing bargirls or wayward spouses. But he is soon involved in tracking a murderer through Bangkok’s little known world of upper-class gentlemen’s clubs, houses of domination and kinky expatriate orgies.
Permanent Damage    by Dean Barrett
Price: $3.99 USD. 119850 words. Published on August 31, 2011. .

Scott Sterling is an American detective, ex-CIA Beijing and Bangkok, living over one of the bars in Bangkok frequented by American vets of various wars. An American woman shows up at the bar; a woman who believes her father, a special forces team leader on highly classified missions into Laos, was murdered by a Thai woman in the early 70’s, and she wishes to clear his name.
DEPLOYMENT VIETNAM -Part 1    by Herb Blanchard
Price: Free! 86910 words. Published on September 16, 2011. .

Deployment Vietnam is based on the author's two tours in Vietnam in the 1960's with the US Navy's Seabees. It relates his experiences in construction of roads, helicopter pads and maintaining Highway One, "THE STREET OF NO JOY", during the rainy seasons of the late 1960 's. He details how the Seabees dealt with not only rain and mud but also the Viet Cong's mines and sniper fire.
Delightful Asian Infatuation - Travel, and Romance, in Tropical Paradise    by Hans Meier
Price: $4.16 USD. 36620 words. Published on November 5, 2011. .

For decades, Hans Meier traveled between Thailand and Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines. Several times, Hans fell in love with respectable ladies of the area. Until he married one of them. Hans tells of his Asian encounters, written from real life. There’s no profanity, the author meets respectable people only. A warm-hearted, funny, entertaining book with amazing cultural insight.
Buying and Riding a Motorcycle in South East Asia    by Sherrie McCarthy
Price: $2.99 USD. 9800 words. Published by Unleash Your Adventure  on March 16, 2012. .

When it comes to riding Southeast Asia the big question is not "should I buy or should I rent" but rather "where do I even start?" The authors were confronted with just this question as they attempted to plan a motorcycle trip throughout Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia & Laos. Every answer they found was different. So they decided to write this handbook as a guide for other new riders in the region.
Siamese Dreams    by Christopher Johnson
Price: $5.00 USD. 108020 words. Published on March 25, 2013. .

Ready to change the world, two high school friends from America begin a new life in Thailand. They take new names, learn Thai, and experiment with sex, drugs and radical lifestyles -- from spectacular poverty to salacious stardom. Set amid economic booms and an epic tsunami disaster, Siamese Dreams is rich with emotion, wit and insights into relations across cultures and sexes.