[close] The scene is Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; the year is 1997 -- a tumultuous and traumatic period, a minor blip on the radar of Malaysia's progress towards becoming a fully developed nation depending on what you read and who you believe. Looking for love and enlightenment in all the wrong places, Graham Wallace (quantity surveyor, part-time footballer, full-time fibber, some-time lover, no-time fighter) gets used and abused, flattered and deceived, jostled and jilted, a wave of self-delusion carrying him through the seas of adventure that comprise his life. Once Removed is funny; shocking; sexy; provocative and evocative, and will have the reader looking at expatriates and Malaysians in a completely different light ... or maybe not. [close]