My book "Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalists Memoir from inside Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge" had not even been wriiten when my then publisher's PR department described it and with Amazon started selling it online. The below hype was never even made aware to me nor was I consulted. It is still online despite my attempts to have it taken down. But now it says that the book is not currently available.
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Sympathy For The Devil [Paperback]
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Product Details
- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Viking USA (Mar 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0670885762
- ISBN-13: 978-0670885763
- Shipping Weight: 503 g
Book Description
The adventures of one of the world's bravest journalists in his ten years on the trail of the elusive Pol Pot--one of the most evil men in history.
Among his peers, Nate Thayer is known as "a man with a mission, a mobile, and an AK-47." In Sympathy For the Devil, he recounts his search for Pol Pot, a man synonymous with the 1970s Cambodian reign of terror, and explores what he learned from him in "the last great interview in Asia." Thayer's pursuit of Pol Pot took him through one of the most impenetrable, malarial, landmine-strewn jungles of the world: Khmer Rouge-controlled northern Cambodia--where he narrowly survived repeated death threats, assassination attempts, and detention by Khmer Rouge, Thai intelligence, and Cambodian troops. Through his clandestine network of contacts, it climaxed in his presence (the only Westerner) at the ex-dictator's 1997 people's tribunal. And in an hour spent exploring Pol Pot's mind--paranoid, precise, and unrepentant.
Thayer's gripping book is an unforgettable account of the lengths to which a reporter will go to reach the truth, and a close first-hand look at evil and its ways. It is an urgent reflection on Cambodia past, present, and future--from the only journalist to enter its hidden core and leave alive.