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Published on July 24, 2007

No, not Lord Voldemort. This time, Potter is facing his most dreadful antagonist ever. Yes, that "You Know Him" guy: deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Self-exiled Thaksin Shinawatra is launching his memoirs, "Thaksin's 24 Hours", at the Hong Kong Book Fair 2007.

In fact, this is not the first autobiography by Thaksin. But "Thaksin's 24 Hours" is set to be the most exciting and highly anticipated ever, because it will recap the details of his struggle to cling to power in the first hours after the September 19 coup before being forced to into self-imposed exile.

We're trying to find a copy of the book for a brief summary. But the book is turning out to be rare commodity: it does not target Thais in general or the English-speaking readers of The Nation. Instead, Thaksin decided to publish it in Chinese.

We can expect thrills and suspense in the style of the American action series "24", which chronicles every single hour that action hero Jack Bauer must fight dastardly villains.

According to the rough excerpts we've received, Thaksin laments that in spite of his goodness, he was forced to live abroad, because of a certain someone's malicious intent.

Readers who think they know the name of the villain in Thaksin's book can send the answer to The Nation. But sorry, we don't have anything to give away, because we think it doesn't take a genius to figure out You Know Who.

jeerawat@nationgroup.com