{"product_id":"9781462900039","title":"Bangkok Babylon","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong them are the man thought to be the model for Colonel Kurtz in \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Now\u003c\/i\u003e, an advertising executive who photographs Thai bargirls for \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll of them \"escaped\" to Thailand to re-invent themselves and live out their fantasies in one of the world's most notorious cities.","brand":"Tuttle Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124685717744,"sku":"9781462900039","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462900039_p0.jpg?v=1763679541","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462900039","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}