A Lust For Life
By Mobi D'Ark
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‘A Lust for Life’ is the story of Toby Stark, a saga of 210,000 words, spanning five decades, and five continents, with much of the action taking place in South East Asia, primarily in Thailand.
It is the tale of a troubled, hard drinking Englishman who was born to an abusive father in post-war, economically depressed London, and whose foolhardy escapades take him to America, Canada, Africa, the Middle East and Indonesia, before arriving in Thailand where he decides to spend the remainder of his life.
Along the way Toby lurches from poverty, to wealth, and back to poverty again; is subjected to spells in many of the world’s jails; wins and loses countless women - including five wives, four of whom are Thai - and also develops an unhealthy addiction to alcohol.
In later life, he becomes inextricably involved with two beautiful women from rural Thailand.
‘Ying’ is born in impoverished circumstances in Eastern Thailand, and at the age of eight she witnesses her gangland father being shot down in front of her. Ying’s eventful life takes her to Bangkok at the age of twelve to work as an indentured servant, and later to the south of Thailand where she suffers constant abuse by the father of her child. She eventually escapes and moves back to Bangkok where she becomes a popular hostess at one of Bangkok’s nightspots.
‘Na’ is also born into incredible poverty in the North East of Thailand and moves to the resort City of Pattaya at a very young age. Despite her appalling suffering at the hands of paedophiles and other criminal elements, she survives to become a highly sought after ‘working girl’ in one of Pattaya’s premier red light districts.
The two women meet by chance and reluctantly join forces to try and save Toby from almost certain death in a Pattaya jail after he is arrested for causing a fatal road accident.
Their efforts to rescue him and their subsequent adventures are an exciting, roller-coaster of a ride, which exposes the sordid underbelly of Pattaya’s criminally controlled, lawless, sex industry where death, human trafficking and unspeakable depravity are the order of the day. The thrilling and shocking climax of the saga is both uplifting and distressing.
"A Lust for Life" leads the reader deep into the dark side of Thailand’s corrupt and morally bankrupt society. It explores the fatal culture clashes that are experienced by thousands of eager westerners who flock to Thailand, only to learn that their dreams of happiness in a tropical paradise are largely an illusion.
It also delves into the causes and the punishing effects of alcoholism in both eastern and western civilizations.
At its heart, "A Lust for Life" is a novel about abuse and its long lasting effects and of desire, love, greed, adventure, heartbreak and shocking violence - the bread and butter of daily life in the exotic "Land Of Smiles."
Mobi D'Ark
Mobi D'Ark was born in 1946 in Hampshire, England and grew up in post-war, economically depressed East London/Essex. He left school at the age of sixteen to become an accountant and had a 40-year career in the world of global finance. During this time he lived and worked extensively abroad, primarily in South East Asia, West Africa, The Middle East, and North America. He concluded his career back where he started - in the City of London. Taking early retirement in 2,000, Mobi turned his hand to his first love, creative writing, and over the following 14 years, he has written a collection of six Thai-based novelettes, a children's novel, a crime novelette based in the Middle East and three full-length novels, two of which are mainly based in Thailand, and the third in Nigeria. Mobi is a much-wedded world traveller and has been caught up in many sensational adventures. These include a bloody civil war; a kidnapping; high-level corruption; a murder or two and a few other foolhardy escapades which on occasion, have caused him to spend several brief spells in third-world jails. Much of his writing is based on these personal experiences. After living overseas for many years, Mobi returned to the UK in 2017 and now lives in Rutland.
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