A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote wild & dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business Amazingly he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization He has been shot at hijacked & held hostage; almost died of dysentery in Asia & toothache in Russia; watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia; lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a mouse in a fight to the death & been served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter & that's just his day job Taking postings in some of the world's wildest & most remote regions not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet Paul has worked got into trouble & been given serious talkings to in locations as far-flung as the North Sea Middle East Borneo & Tunisia as exotic as Sumatra Vietnam & Thailand & as flat-out dangerous as Columbia Nigeria & Russia with some of the maddest baddest & strangest people you could ever hope not to meet