A Raindrop in the Ocean

A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before settling into a stellar banking career. Looking back on a life well lived as he faces terminal illness, he swears that the key to his success was his gruelling training as a Buddhist monk in a snowbound Japanese monastery.

Vastly entertaining' - South China Morning Post,A remarkably philosophical memoir about what has been a remarkable life' - BBC World Service Business Daily

Variously descended from a pirate captain, a Lord Mayor of London and a governor of Carolina, Michael Dobbs-Higginson was born on a farm in Southern Rhodesia in 1941.Encouraged by his quasi-mystic mother to explore the great religions of the world, he enrolled in one of the oldest Zen Buddhist monasteries in Japan and was ordained a lay monk in his early twenties. He also became a black-belt in the stick-fighting discipline kendo. After studying medicine in Dublin, logging in Canada and teaching surfing in Hawaii, he moved back to Japan where he set up several businesses before being chased out of the country by unscrupulous CIA operatives. He then became an investment banker and has invested in a number of start-up business ventures. He is currently developing electric vehicles and drones for the Far East and an e-commerce platform for Africa. With his French wife Marie-Therese he has three grown-up children. He lives in Singapore, London and France.

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