Marvellous. He sounds like a Le Carré character. I'm mad for those 60s and 70s war correspondants and I tick off FCCs I have drank in. So far I have Bangkok, Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Hong Kong and New Delhi. Some of them have been modernised but you can still smell the fear if you sniff hard enough (drink enough scotch).
'Seems that I was busy doing something close to nothing
But different than the day before'
'Met a dwarf that was no good, dressed like Little Red Riding Hood'
'Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd'