"When I finish a book I collapse and say, 'That's it. Never again,' " sighs Bangkok-based author Christopher G. Moore. "About three, four months later the demons pull me back, and the whole mad process starts over."
The Vancouver native, a law instructor by training, happened to be Japan in 1983 to observe production of his drama on NHK radio when a Thai friend invited him to visit Thailand. After a brief stay, Moore decided Thailand was the perfect location for a novel. He returned to Bangkok at the end of 1988.
"It never occurred to me that I would stay on indefinitely," he says. "One book led to another, and 16 years later, after 17 novels, I still haven't come close to exhausting the material."