Warren Olson

I didn't set out to be an author ; nor for that matter did I envisage I would become one of the most well known and successful Western private investigators to operate in South East Asia. After assisting numerous equine establishments in the region ( From Macau horse trainers to Thai Royalty and being involved in the SEA Games equestrian events at the Chiang Mai Sports club ) I spent some time as a marketing manager for Hotels in Koh Samui, Bangkok and eventually on the Thai/Cambodian border at Surin.

By then being fluent in Thai and Khmer, I found my services occasionally required by friends, acquaintances, NGO's and Government agencies in the region.

This prompted me to found the Private Investigation company THAI PRIVATE EYE, in the early 1990s. The success of the business grew steadily, as with my contacts and knowledge of the language and people I found I was able to go places/solve problems that few other Westerners could hope to understand or to ever achieve.

Death Threats, being shot at and forced to spend the odd day or two in Thai jails when I got a little too close to corrupt business's were part and parcel of the job.

When my daughter Natalie was born in 2002, I decided I should make plans for a somewhat safer and more mundane lifestyle. A few years later I repatriated to my native New Zealand, where following an interest in Transnational crime issues and intelligence analysis I completed a masters degree in Strategic studies at Victoria University and in the process penned an award winning research paper on cross cultural interviewing.

These days I lecture on that subject, write the occasional book, still advise on some Thai based investigations, maintain an interest in thoroughbreds and am pretty much a full time uber driver for Nat. My pride and joy, daughter Natalie has represented New Zealand at College football, and is now a Law Student ; fully justifying my decision to retire from the hustle and bustle not to mention dodging the odd bullet associated with Investigations in Thailand, to a more sedate parenting life New Zealand.