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The way the West's best spy in Asia attempted to avoid the new American way of war - and the steep price he paid for declining... Jim Thompson got in Thailand at the end of World War II, a ex - American society dilettante who became an Asian story as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never observed. As the Cold War come to Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson presumed, help other countries build democracies off their traditional ethnicities, or as his ex-OSS good friend Willis Bird argued, remake the globe through deception and self-serving alliances? In a tale rich with insights and intrigue, this booklet explores an integral Cold War show that continues to be participating in out today.
- Features a pivotal instant in Cold War history that arranged a course for American foreign policy that continues to be being implemented today.
- Explores the dynamics that put Thailand at the guts of the Cold War and the fighting in neighboring Laos that escalated from sideshow to the greatest covert procedure America had ever employed in.
- Draws on personal recollections and includes atmospheric details that bring the people, occasions - and the Thailand of the time - alive.
- Written by the journalist with comprehensive experience in Asian affairs who have spent years investigating every aspect of the report, including Thompson's tragic disappearance.
