THE FIRST REVIEWS ARE COMING IN:

‘Catch Me If You Can meets The Quiet American—a spy thriller filtered through a backpacker’s sunburn and a shot of Red Bull... This is the kind of book you devour in a hammock and then recommend with a grin and a warning: “This is one wild ride.”’ Independent Book Review

‘Those who enjoy political intrigue, interesting characters, and faraway settings will find it all in this entertaining read. Morris is a master storyteller adept at keeping one turning pages deep into the night.’ The US Review of Books

‘No one captures the exhilarating spirit of world-in-upheaval Southeast Asia of the last 30-plus years as authentically as Ron Morris.’ Zsolt Luka, Emmy-nominated director of Around the World for Free

COMING MAY 2025
An adventure in Southeast Asia like no other, available at Asia Books, Books Kinokuniya and on Amazon.

A daring coup attempt...
A nation's bloody history...
A chance for love and glory...

Would you dare to break all the rules?
Could you live with yourself afterwards?

Based on true events, In a Country with No Name both horrifies and charms in its detailed account of an ambitious and desperate scheme.

A young Westerner finds himself joining a coalition of business and military interests to overthrow a government that has fallen afoul of the rich and powerful.

Author Ron Morris renews dreams of bold adventure in modern times, chronicling the thrills of life in Southeast Asia in this truly unique tale of intrigue and expats in an ancient land.

The first book in the Bert Mars Adventure series.

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Asia Books: There Are Still Unknown Places (paperback)
Asia Books: There Are Still Unknown Places (hard cover)
Asia Books: Last Century (paperback)
Books Kinokuniya: There Are Still Unknown Places
Books Kinokuniya: Last Century
Also available on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)

There Are Still Unknown Places
An epic novel of Thailand life
by Ron Morris

REVIEWS: Independent Book Review, US Review of Books, Booktrib

‘A beautifully crafted work of language, land, intelligence, insight, observation and philosophy...’ BookTrib

An American expat craves success...
A Thai girl scarred by the past...
An Aussie searches for his father, lost to Bangkok long ago...
A Thai man finds the world passing him by...
An expat woman calls out the evil that she sees...
A failed priest prays and sins and prays again...

All find their dreams (and failures) in a world forever beyond their reach...
Consumed by a prosperity that will raise all boats (but sink some)...
There are fortunes to be made, mysteries to be unraveled, and challenges to be endured.

Combining the mundane and the mystical, the everyday and epic, There Are Still Unknown Places is an unforgettable novel for a generation disillusioned by the promises of the world, wanting to search for their destinies in far-off places.

‘There are a lot of books that emulate the feeling of traveling to a new place... yet there are very few books that feel like completely living somewhere else. It is a deeply captivating and enriching sensation, and it makes There Are Still Unknown Places all the more special.’ Independent Book Review

Last Century
by Ron Morris

Last Century is a unique collection of traveller's tales illuminating life in Thailand and neighboring countries in the 1990s. Ron Morris applies the discipline of the short story to true tales of adventure: being trapped in the Bayon in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge, running from the chaos of Thailand's Black May, and traveling in Myanmar to examine a mysterious sword.

It was a frenetic world undergoing an economic boom, but also an isolated outpost for lost souls. There, anything was possible–fortunes, dreams and visions, and the challenge of becoming a man in the ancient and modern landscapes of a new world.

Last Century harks back to the old expats' Thailand before the internet, where the days were long and the country still remote, and one could find adventure in every new day.

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