How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failing Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw.

T'Aejun Yi, Janet Poole (trans.)

    

France has Montaigne, England has Francis Bacon and Charles Lamb. Japan has Sei Shonagon and Kenko. Now, thanks to a fine translation by Janet Poole of the... [ Read full review ]