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Mike Coppin

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Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, late colonial Dutch writers.

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After a previous life as a welfare worker, life became more fun when I went to live in Java, Indonesia, for five years. My day job was teaching English but my real delight was getting to know the locals and the tropical countryside. It was all so exotic and different from what I'd been accustomed to (I'm from Australia), that I felt compelled to make it the setting for a novel.
After exciting times, including being caught up in violent riots that unseated a semi-dictator, I returned to my home town and knuckled down to writing Shadow Chase. I hope you'll enjoy it like other readers have.
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Jakarta riots, May 1998

In the middle of May 1998, major riots broke out in Jakarta and – to a lesser extent – some other Indonesian cities. They began with a peaceful student demo that ended in deaths, followed over the next two days by more protests and by riots by students, Islamic groups, looters and thugs, each with their own agenda. The week-long breakdown of law and order resulted in President Suharto stepping dow

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