Book Review: The Silk King's Disappearance
On Easter Sunday 1967, the most famous American in Southeast Asia went for a short walk in the Malaysian hill station of Cameron Highlands and disappeared, as thoroughly as if he had been taken up into the air and vaporized.
In the intervening 44 years, no trace has ever been found of the then 61-year-old Jim Thompson, a onetime OSS and CIA agent who bec…
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