Bangkok Babylon - by Jerry Hopkins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Entertaining & colorful stories from the bars and bedrooms of one of the worldAEs most interesting cities<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>In the colorful tradition of Orwell and Hemingway, Maugham and Theroux, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling twenty-five of the city's most unforgettable characters.</b> <p/>Among them are the man thought to be the model for Colonel Kurtz in <i>Apocalypse Now</i>, an advertising executive who photographs Thai bargirls for <i>Playboy</i>, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who moved there to die, a Catholic priest who has lived and worked in the Bangkok slums for 35 years, a circus dwarf turned computer programmer turned restaurateur, three Vietnam war helicopter pilots who opened a go-go bar, a pianist at one of the world's best hotels who ended up on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, a gem dealer who smuggles antiquities from Burma and Cambodia, a detective who tracks runaways who fake their deaths, and a documentary filmmaker who lives with elephants. <p/>All of them escaped to Thailand to re-invent themselves and live out their fantasies in one of the world's most notorious cities.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jerry Hopkins</b> has published best-selling biographies of Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix and was an editor and correspondent for <i>Rolling Stone</i> for 20 years.
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