Nelson Rand is a freelance journalist living in Bangkok, Southeast Asia.
He is an editor for The Nation newspaper[1] and was a regular contributor to Asia Times Online.
[3] The book reviews his time spent with the Hmong, the Karen, the Montagnards of Vietnam and the Muslim rebels in the south of Thailand.
The book also focuses on time spent with the Cambodian government troops tracking down the last of the Khmer Rouge in northern Cambodia.
On May 14, 2010, France 24 reported that Nelson Rand had been shot in the leg, hand and abdomen whilst covering the Red-Shirt protests in Bangkok.