It's a raw account of living down and dirty on the streets of Bangkok. It's his account of survival, betrayal and eventually redemption. Will the author kick his house wife habit - 5 miligrams of Valium? It's his right of passage and voyage into Asia's Heart of Darkness as the author bums and beats his way around Bangkok and Cambodia. It has it all the ingredients of Sodom and Gomorra - girly bars, mercenaries, hacks, con men, drugs, sex and the many seedy expat characters that are drawn to Bangkok for its looseness. "I was on a bender back then. Codeine, valium, and other stronger downers. A...

This follow up to 'Garuda's Travels: Sins and Redemption' is a collection of essays teased and taunted from bashing around old haunts. It may rant and rail, but muses on dirty politics, dirty hygiene, and some simply filthy behaviour. All the while the Dirty Little War wages in the background. After a month crawling on the borders of Southern Thailand, Vanya attempts to understand the dirty little war that over a decade has killed over 6000 people. Two years later, he does a few more border runs into Insurgent territory, testing his mettle. In-between ducking in and out of every immigration...