Coming soon:  “Down the Wrong Road: From Binh Dinh to Baidoa:

                            Personal stories of Adventure, Love and Betrayal”

 Books in which I have made small contributions:

 Tim Bowden, One Crowded Hour, Collins, 1987

--- an account of the life of renowned Australian cameraman, journalist, mentor and friend Neil Davis .

David Butler, The Fall of Saigon, Simon & Schuster, 1985

--- an account of the Communist victory in Vietnam In 1975 .

Alan Dawson, 55 Days, The Fall of Vietnam, Prentice Hall, 1977

William Shawcross, The Quality of Mercy, Simon &Schuster, 1984

--- an account of flawed international relief operations of the 70's & 80's.

 John Pilger, Heroes, Jonathan Cape, 1986

---  Australian born journalist's memoirs in which Laurie's 1980 observations of Cambodia are recalled.

Orville Schell, The Gate of Heavenly Peace, 1993

--- Schell's account of the Tiananmen Democracy period re-tells Laurie's Story of one Chinese worker imprisoned for a television interview.

Ted Koppel & Kyle Gibson, Nightline, Times Books, 1996 

--- story of America’s best known late night news program and references to its China coverage

Sandra Burton, Impossible Dream, Warner Books, 1989 

--- an account of the Aquino "Yellow" Revolution in the Philippines, 1986.  Sandy and I were among the "witnesses" to the murder of Benigno Aquino after a 1984 flight from Taipei to Manila

David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals, Scribner, 2001 

--- Comments on international journalism in the 1990's and coverage of the Balkans on page 163

David Halberstam, The Next Century, William Morrow, 1991

--- the late Pulitzer Prize Winner’s forward reflections on 2000 plus.

 Recommended Books:

Bernard Fall, Hell in a Very Small Place

Bernard Fall,  Street Without Joy

Graham Greene,  The Quiet American

Graham Greene,   End of the Affair

Andre Malroux,  The Royal Way

Francois Bizot,  The Gate

John Swain,  River of Time