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Bangkok Babylon: The Real-Life Exploits Of Bangkok's Legendary Expatriates Are Often Stranger Than Words - Softcover
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In the colorful tradition of Hemingway's A Movable Feast, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling 25 of the city's most unforgettable characters. Among them are the man thought to be the model for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, an advertising executive who photographs Thai bargirls for Playboy, 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 detective who tracks runaways who fake their deaths and a documentary filmmaker who lives with elephants. All of them "escaped" to Thailand to reinvent themselves and live out their fantasies in one of the world's most notorious cities.
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Jerry Hopkins has published bestselling biographies including No One Here Gets Out Alive, along with books on Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix and was an editor and correspondent for Rolling Stone for 20 years. He is the author of 30 books, including the recent Thailand Confidential. He lives in Bangkok.
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