Tropic B is Tropic of Capricorn, its torrid twin. In the past, when both books had to be smuggled into the U.S., hosts of nonreaders thought of them only as interchangeable smut.

Tropic of Chaos: a book review “Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer lies what I call the Tropic of Chaos, a belt of economically and politically battered post-colonial ...

Simon's books include Tropic Of Capricorn (published by BBC Books), and The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden And The Future Of Terrorism, a New York Times bestseller, published in 1998 ...