Jim Thompson Thai legend

All those who have discovered Thailand, ancient kingdom of Siam, know the brand Jim Thompson, local equivalent of our National Hermes.
The history of this gentleman is a real novel and this is the subject of this book which we are fortunate to have the French version.
Officer of the United States Army, he was sent into the country at the end of the Second World War. But the time it gets there, the war had just ended. He decided to take a few days to discover the kingdom, which he literally falls in love to the point of deciding to settle there.
But it should work well. So he is prospecting and reflected.
At that time, there was virtually no silk production in the country, except in the big northeastern region of Isan. He is watching with interest and he will raise, with the support of the (still) Queen Sirikit, Thai silk.
That produced by his company and probably a little more expensive than many others found on the night markets but is of unparalleled quality.
As for his life, it's really a novel, even in his mysterious disappearance in the Cameron Highlands, still unexplained today.
That is the whole purpose of this book, which reads like a novel, and that anyone who is planning to go to Thailand should discover. It replaces all SAS on beaches or it easily outweighs plane.