Running with the Sharks

Bangkok: White Lotus, 1993. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.00. Eckardt, James. Running with the Sharks is a novel of stark human conflict set in the lawless isolation of an uninhabited island off Thailand�s Andaman coast. Tony DeLupo, alias �Loopy da Loop�, is a man with a past. On an around-the-world orgy of spear fishing��I enjoy killing things. And then eating them.��he retreats to the coral world of Koh Adang in the Andaman Sea, but, instead of finding the solitude he seeks, meets up with a group of marine biologists from Hat Yai�s Prince of Songkhla University. Thai, British and American, the group includes Anna Briggs who is attracted to Tony and Terry Weeks who is jealous. Montri Xuto, alias �Hassan bin Khalid�, is also a man with a past, a heroin smuggler who is trying to disappear from Phuket and retire gracefully to Australia.