Tom Vater

Tom Vater is a writer, editor & publisher working predominantly in Asia.
Tom has published six novels, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, currently available in English and Spanish, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, released by Crime Wave Press in Asia and world wide in July 1013 by Exhibit A as well as two follow-ups, The Man with the Golden Mind, out with Exhibit A in March 2014 and now with Next Chapter and The Monsoon Ghost Image (2018), also out with Next Chapter. In 2019, the Goethe Institute Kolkata and the city of Kolkata selected Tom to take part in the Indo European Art Residency - his novella collection Kolkata Noir is the result. In 2022, Next Chapter published Tom's eco thriller, The Green Panthers.
Tom has written for The Economist,

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