THE TEN MILLION DOLLAR VIEW
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Paradise has a price. Tommy and Jo found out the hard way.
Koh Samui, 1990s. Tommy and his girlfriend Jo are running a beachfront bar on Lamai Beach, and they call it the Ten Million Dollar View. Then the monsoon hits, the money dries up, and Tommy goes looking for a shortcut.
The shortcut ends in a police raid, a bribed sergeant and a midnight escape from Thailand. A year later, against Jo’s every warning, Tommy talks her into going back.
At Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport, the passport scanner gives him away.
The Ten Million Dollar View: Nightmare in Bangkok is a short, fast, darkly funny true story of blagger bravado, bad decisions and the people who pay for them. It follows a charming talker who finally runs out of things to say, from a Thai immigration detention centre to a courtroom in Surat Thani.
If you like gritty travel memoirs with a sharp Northern wit, this is a quick read you won’t forget.
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