Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse

- An unprecedented view of the oil industry from the inside-out: Paul Carter has worked on oil rigs since he was eighteen, in locations as far flung as the North Sea, the Middle East, Borneo, Tunisia, Sumatra, Vietnam, Columbia, Nigeria, Russia, and many others--and he's survived (so far!) to tell rollicking stories from the edge of civilization (places, as it happens, upon which most of our lives rely). - An unbelievable cast of characters and catastrophes (in other words, a movie just waiting to happen): Carter, who continues to work on oil rigs even as he has now become a successful writer, has been shot at, hijacked, and held hostage; almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia; watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia; and been served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and remotest regions-not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet--Carter has worked and gotten into trouble with some of the maddest, baddest, and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet.Carter, Paul is the author of 'Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse', published 2007 under ISBN 9781600940255 and ISBN 1600940250.