Stephen Rogers.

Stephen Rogers "Stephen Rogers writes with an insider’s knowledge.... Rogers deftly catches that peculiar feel of Jakarta, which anyone who has lived there will instantly recognize. The atmosphere of tension during the riots is almost palpable, as is the sense of loss that follows. This book which will take its place beside A Year Of Living Dangerously by Christopher J. Koch as a portrait of its place and time." Christopher New author of Shanghai	The Last Puppet Master

Stephen Rogers was born in Northern Ireland and attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied economics and politics. He has worked as a banker and journalist in South Africa and as a stockbroker in Hong Kong and Indonesia. He lived in Indonesia for eight years from 1991 to 1999, working as a research director with a European brokerage company. He was present in Jakarta during the Asian financial crisis and the subsequent fall of President Suharto. The Last Puppet Master is his first novel. < >