Shelby Tucker is a dual-national American and British lawyer, journalist and the author of Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma, the story of his trek from China to India through the Kachin highlands of northern Burma, Burma: The Curse of Independence, a ?plain man?s guide? to Burma?s perennial strife, and The Last Banana: Dancing with the Watu, about David Livingstone?s quest for ?God?s highway?, the role of the Greeks in bringing the ?three Cs? to Tanganyika, and Tucker?s African travels. and Client Service, a satirical novel about an offshore financial company drawn from a moment in the sixties when Tucker was a ?financial counsellor? for Bernie Cornfeld?s notorious Investors Overseas Services.