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PARADISE LOST: Mahathir & The End of Hope takes a critical look at Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s role in Malaysia’s political evolution and his ultimately destructive legacy of corruption, racism and religious extremism. He inherited a nation pregnant with promise and left it mired in division, uncertainty and instability, a grand kleptopia, a terrible kakistocracy. It also examines the role Mahathir played in Pakatan Harapan’s stunning 2018 electoral victory and his subsequent betrayal of the coalition he was entrusted to lead. The end result is a nation in deep crisis, adrift in a sea of uncertainty, unable to come to terms with its past, unwilling to make the compromises necessary for its future.
Written by a former Malaysian ambassador, Paradise Lost makes for sober reading. Intensely provocative, it challenges long-established shibboleths, spotlights the dangers now confronting the nation and argues that Malaysia’s only hope for redemption lies in embracing and harnessing its unique multicultural identity.
[321 pages.]

"A devastating portrait of Mahathir. Paradise Lost doesn’t disappoint." – Mariam Mokhtar, Rebuilding Malaysia Blogger
“A deeply informative and disturbing account of how Mahathir Mohamad almost single-handedly destroyed Malaysia’s promise as a multiracial, multiethnic democracy.” – John Berthelsen, Editor in Chief, Asia Sentinel

“It’s a landscape of surprising breadth and depth that needs to be read.” – Siti Kasim, Human Rights Lawyer
"A unique no-holds-barred insider perspective." – Dr Mohd Tajuddin Rasdi, Professor & Columnist
"Peels away the layers around the man and his policies." – Datuk Kenny Ng, Human Rights Lawyer
"Superbly written." – Dr Lim Teck Ghee, Former Professor (University of Malaya) & Columnist
"An eulogy for a country that could have been." S. Thayaparan, Commander (R) Royal Malaysian Navy & Columnist