Chet Nairene is an American writer who truly qualifies for the honorary title of "Old Asia Hand".
Before turning to fiction, Chet Nairene built a globe‑spanning career with an oil multinational, running everything from tanker operations down the Malay Peninsula to vast retail networks across Malaysia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand, and South Korea.
His years living at the crossroads of cultures—and occasionally in the path of chaos—now fuel his stories of Westerners out of their depth in Asia, where the rules are different, the stakes are personal, and nothing ever goes quite as planned.
During his youth, fresh from college, he worked as a journalist at a midwestern USA daily newspaper.
