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Fluent in Thai and Khamen, New Zealander Warren Olson worked the bars and back alleys of Bangkok, going where other private eyes feared to tread. Although Olson has since retired from the PI scene and has returned to his native Auckland, where he was recently awarded a Masters in Strategic Studies, the company he founded in Bangkok, Thai Private Eye, is still open for business (www.thaiprivateeye.com).

Thai Private Eye

For more than a decade, intrepid Kiwi Warren Olson trawled the mean streets of Bangkok and the lesser-known corners of the Land of Smiles. His brief? To uncover unsavoury truths about Thai bargirl lovers, philandering spouses, insurance fraud and scam artists of various stripes. He was a private eye prying into nooks and crannies few dared to explore and, along the way, he uncovered fascinating secrets of Thais and foreigners engaged in no good.

This volume – the follow-up to Olson’s bestselling Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye – serves up more juicy portions of what goes on under the veneer in Thailand and includes stories deemed too hot to include in the first book for fear of repercussions. It also includes recent cases, where state-of-the-art surveillance devices and other advances in the dark arts of private investigation have made it easier to uncover dirt deep below the surface. This is a book that reads like exciting fiction, with one big difference: every story is true. Only the names and related identifying details have been changed to protect the innocent along with the guilty. These chronicles of a decade lived dangerously in the Land of Crooked Smiles will, by turns, entertain, shock, inflame and inform you.

Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye

Two-timing bargirls, suspicious spouses and lesbian lovers, it was all in a day’s work for Bangkok Private Eye Warren Olson.

For more than a decade Olson walked the mean streets of the Big Mango. Fluent in Thai and Khmer, he was able to go where other Private Eyes feared to tread.

His clients included Westerners who had lost their hearts and life savings to money-hungry bargirls. But he had more than his fair share of Thai clients, too, including a sweet old lady who was ripped off by a Christian conman and a Thai girl blackmailed by a former lover.

The stories are based on Olson’s case files, fictionalised (to protect the innocent, and the guilty) by bestselling author Stephen Leather. Olson has now relocated to his native New Zealand with his Thai wife and daughter, but the agency that he founded is still open for business at www.thaiprivateeye.com.

(Sources: Warren Olson and  Pan Macmillan Australia)