Mike Tucker went on a short patrol with Karen insurgents, and got lost... Amid the flourishing published work on Burma—travelogues, memoirs, academic analysis and large and detailed NGO reports—Mike Tucker?s new book is a real standout. The Long Patrol is clearly the worst of the bunch. What is promoted as a "refreshing, overdue" book is nothing but a manual of male vanity written by an obnoxious tourist...The book reads like an advertisement for Viagra in Soldier of Fortune..."