About the Author Mike Pettit's thirty years of adventure and experiences living and working in the Far East Gives him the voice of authority in his writings of Asian business and crime, and how the two are considered one in the same. The Oriental's obsession with power and greed, gambling and sex, and the need to win at any cost. The driving force of "Face," and the life threatening humiliation of losing it. Pettit has spent his share of time in little known back-water ports around Asia, learning and applying the rules of the East; knowing when a business deal is done, when to run, believe onl...