Sleeping With the Dead; A Kiwi Working with Bangkok's Bodysnatchers

Marko Cunningham teaches English at a school in Thailand during the day. At night he is a volunteer paramedic, with his own ambulance and his own equipment. Thailand's emergency medical system is bizarre - largely volunteer, competitive and based on kickbacks from hospitals, and dealing with corrupt police. It makes you to very much not hope you need to be a part of it. Most of these volunteers work in normal jobs during the day and then pay for all their own equipment, petrol and vehicles, donating their time, normally on a rotation of working every second night. Many of them, like Marko have no savings, and no safety blanket for their futures.
Marko is a New Zealander who identifies with Thailand, considering it his home. He started volunteering as an unqualified assistant, then trained to move up the ranks. He was a part of the first internal response from Thailand to the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004. He was one of few of the first responders who spoke English to be able to deal with the many tourists looking for their friends and relations. He worked without a break for the first two weeks - something he didn't realise others were not doing until much later.
This is a relatively short book - an easy read. It is very honest. Marko doesn't claim to be a perfect angel. It is a book split into three parts - the introduction covers off a lot of the background to his life and his early time in Thailand. The second part is the Tsunami, the third his time after the Tsunami - 2004 to 2009.