The Lizard King Book Blog Breakout
Monday, August 24th, 200915,200km away from here, Malaysia reads this blog. This is a story I neglected to put up:
The Star Online > Nation
Monday August 17, 2009
Author: Wong downplayed smuggling role
By HILARY CHIEW
PETALING JAYA: In Philadelphia, 15,200km away from here, author of The Lizard King, Bryan Christy is keenly following recent news on infamous wildlife trafficker Anson Wong Keng Liang — one of the key characters in his book.
Christy uploaded the Starprobe stories on Malaysia being an illegal wildlife trade hotspot on his blog (www.thelizardkingbook.com/blog) and expressed his feelings on Wong’s comment about him.
Amused, he wrote: “As for his remembering our time together as only a 15-minute assignation followed by an offer of a lift home, I feel cheap…yet pregnant.”
Wong had downplayed the intimate information of his smuggling activities detailed by Christy in the book released last September.
In his latest entry, Christy said he was pleased that the Malaysian public are speaking up as shown by the letters to The Star, calling for investigations into the allegations of the involvement of a high-ranking officer in the Department of Wildlife and National Park (Perhilitan) in Wong’s trafficking activities that led to his incarceration in the United States in 2001. (more…)