Matthew Thompson is a writer and adventurer who has covered such topics as nudist colonies, women’s boxing, professional pool hustling, drag racing, French dining in Tokyo, and war. He has run from Iranian riot police in Tehran, rumbled with Colombian gangs in Medellin, eaten sardines with Maoist rebels in the mountains of Luzon in the northen Philippines, explored the Muslim insurgencies of the southern Philippines, drinking coffee with Abu Sayyaf bomb-makers and eating raw goat with their foes in the Marines.

He was born in the USA but educated in Australia, where he was awarded the University Medal in literature at Newcastle University and a doctorate in creative arts by the University of Western Sydney. He has worked as a reporter at the Sydney Morning Herald and writes for a range of magazines and newspapers. Thompson has a broken nose and a volatile little dog named Noodles.

Published in Australia
and New Zealand by Picador