John Burdett

The Washington Post [29th May 2005]

The big break of a writer’s career comes — unexpectedly — at a wild, drunken party in a remote Thai village.

“Shun security,” I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. “Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn’t agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.”

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New York Times [13th January 2005]

IN 22 years of using Bangkok’s airport, Don Muang, the busiest in Southeast Asia, I have never known it to be anything but crowded. On New Year’s Eve, five days after the tsunami that devastated Phuket and much of the rest of southern Thailand, it was empty.

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