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It will also help Thai officials better understand the mindset of the foreign investor

Marshal Sarit Thanarat became prime minister of Thailand following a bloodless coup

Touch the Dragon Labor Edited by Pimpawun Boonmongkon andI was startled by the book's immediacyas if I had been lifted all the way to Thailand without ever booking passage. Touch the Dragon is a splendid evocation of a place and a people that remain, for most of us, in dreams. Few can record such dreamsbut Karen Connelly has done so with a precision that suggests the best dreaming can be had by getting on a plane to Bangkok. I already look forward to reading Touch the Dragon again and again. Timothy Findley