In the mid-1970s, a young, twenty-something man living an American dream threw away a lucrative job as a database manager and came back to India. At that time, India had no IT industry to speak of; computers were a novelty, and the nation was trapped in socio-economic backwardness and a labyrinthine License Raj.
A biography of the Cambodian leader whose private life has been a closely guarded secret. It is based on recently declassified archival documents and hours of interviews with Hun Sen, his wife Bun Rany, son Hun Manet, other family members and associates. It chronicles the life of Hun Sen from obscurity as a pagoda boy to strongman status.