Tom Vater is a writer, editor & publisher working predominantly in Asia.
Tom has published six novels, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, currently available in English and Spanish, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, released by Crime Wave Press in Asia and world wide in July 1013 by Exhibit A as well as two follow-ups, The Man with the Golden Mind, out with Exhibit A in March 2014 and now with Next Chapter and The Monsoon Ghost Image (2018), also out with Next Chapter. In 2019, the Goethe Institute Kolkata and the city of Kolkata selected Tom to take part in the Indo European Art Residency - his novella collection Kolkata Noir is the result. In 2022, Next Chapter published Tom's eco thriller, The Green Panthers.
Tom has written for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The South China Morning Post, Marie Claire, Geographical, Penthouse etc.
From 2012 to 2021, he was co-owner of Crime Wave Press, a Hong Kong based English language crime fiction imprint.
He has published several non-fiction books, including the highly acclaimed Sacred Skin with photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat, and the more recent Burmese Light with photographer Hans Kemp.
His True Crime title SHARKMAN was an instant Amazon bestseller when it came out in 2024.
Tom is the co-author of several documentary screenplays, most notably The Most Secret Place On Earth, a feature on the CIA’s covert war in 1960s Laos.
In his spare time, he plays in Rock’nRoll bands, swims with sharks & reads Noir fiction.

You can follow him on his Facebook page or on Clippingsr.