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Don't Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs: (She Thinks I'm A Piano Player In A
Whorehouse) By Paul Carter (Paperback, 2007)

A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote wild and 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 and held hostage; almost died of dysentery in Asia and 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 and been served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter And that's just his day job Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet Paul has worked got into trouble and been given serious talkings to in locations as far-flung as
the North Sea Middle East Borneo and Tunisia as exotic as Sumatra Vietnam and Thailand and as flat-out dangerous as Columbia Nigeria and Russia with some of the maddest baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet
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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

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