The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War Format:Hardcover Even after two centuries

Even after two centuries

thirst for knowledge

he begins unravelling a mystery that leads him to cross paths with a cast of unusual suspects: a respected restauranteur with a secret past

overlooked year that set the world as we know it in motion

The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War Format:Hardcover Even after two centuriesHow the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of warand the steep price he paid for failing Jim 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. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their