A Raindrop in the Ocean

A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before settling into a stellar banking career. Looking back on a life well lived as he faces terminal illness, the author swears that the key to his success was his gruelling training as a Buddhist monk in a snow-bound Japanese monastery.



MICHAEL DOBBS-HIGGINSON is a natural storyteller who has been, variously, a Buddhist monk, a logger, a surf instructor, a drug smuggler and chairman of Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific. He lives in Singapore, London and France with his wife, Marie-Thérèse and is the author of the bestseller Asia Pacific: Its Role in the New World Disorder.