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The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War
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Hardcover
from Turner Pub Co (November 8, 2011)
9780470086216 | details & prices | 272 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $25.95
Paperback
from Turner Pub Co (November 13, 2010)
9781681620275 | details & prices | 264 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $14.95
About: How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of warâand the steep price he paid for failingJim 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.
About: How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of warâand the steep price he paid for failingJim 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.