Mike Villiers was a ten-year-old boy when his father, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Villiers, died with eleven others on a flight from Bangkok that crashed and burned near Saigon in November 1970. A tragic accident they said. Thirty years on Mike comes to believe that it was murder. And he's looking to find the killers.Thirty years is a long time they tell him. It's a cold case. The perpetrators will be dead. They tell him to forget about it, and most people would. But Mike's not a bit like that. He going to Bangkok, the City of Angels and place of his birth with retribution in mind and vengeance in his heart and, other than his life, nothing to lose.

Tony McManus was born in Manchester, England. He has worked in many jobs to serve his passion for travel such as English teacher, bar tender, taxi driver, and in southern Africa, construction work in the Transvaal goldmines and the copper mines of Zambia. He fought as a Special Forces mercenary soldier in Central Africa for a year.

Tony pursues and advocates good health, via diet and exercise. An outdoorsman, sailor, kayaker and canoeist, he also loves hiking, back-country skiing and snowshoeing.