Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse)

A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the worlds most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, hes survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. He has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage; almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia; watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia; lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a mouse in a fight to the death, and been served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. And thats just his day job.

Paperback. English. Nicholas Brealey. 2007. Used.