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Book Synopsis‘Kingdom of the Monkey’ is the extraordinary and vivid account of a country so captivating yet so obscure in every way, that the deeper you go in the harder it gets to look away.Cambodia, 1993 – 2003: this is no tropical paradise; stay too long out there and soon nothing you may come across really holds the same power to shock or surprise you. It’s a time when all acceptable norms of humanity seem to be turned upside down. Even the last of Indochina’s civil wars, grinding on out in the countryside, presents as a mere sideshow diversion to the main events being played out in the free-for-all capital that is Phnom Penh.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS Also by Jim Taylor: 3 Preface 11 Part One 13 Chapter One – Seventeenth April 14 Chapter Two – The Minefield Bar 19 Chapter Three – Train to Sihanoukville 26 Chapter Four – Toul Kork 30 Part Two 39 Chapter Five – Martinis 40 Chapter Six – Lead us not into temptation 58 Chapter Seven – Rockets for Sale 64 Chapter Eight – The Capitol 70 Part Three 81 Chapter Nine – Total eclipse of the sun 82 Chapter Ten – Golup Ti Muoy 86 Chapter Eleven – Dr. Scotty 99 Part Four 109 Chapter Twelve – The Rooftops 110 Chapter Thirteen – The Banana school 128 Chapter Fourteen – Chasing the dragon 146 Chapter Fifteen – The Golden cow 159 Chapter Sixteen – Aesop's Fables 176 Chapter Seventeen – Year of the Rat 193 Part Five 209 Chapter Eighteen – Metal rain 210 Chapter Nineteen – Three Wise Monkeys 224 Chapter Twenty – Millennium madness 243 Chapter Twenty-one – Blood for sale 252 Part Six 263 Chapter Twenty-two – Brave New World 264 Conclusions 274 Glossary 282 Bibliography 287
