The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War by Joshua Kurlantzick

The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War

Joshua Kurlantzick

272 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics dark informative medium-paced
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How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and 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 ...

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