The Salamander’s Tail

A tale of armed conflict and espionage set in the heart of Southeast Asia. Lance Friend, a rootless English do-gooder, is caught up in a high stakes geopolitical contest between the U.S. and China using the long civil war in neighbouring Burma as a proxy battefield as a new Cold War heats up. — From the author of Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia “A thoughtful and unsettling portrait of a region where environmental crisis, insurgency, and great-power rivalry intersect.” — THANT MYINT U author of The River of Lost Footsteps and The Hidden History of Burma “An intelligently crafted spy novel, so rooted in reality that I forgot it was fiction.” — PATRICK WINN author of Narcotopia Size 14x21 cm.