Andrew Leci's Once Removed

I'm down to the last book I bought written by angmos about life in the South East Asia region - Andrew Leci's Once Removed. All I know of the guy was that he was a co-founder of Instant Cafe Theatre and that he's now a presenter on ESPN (a channel foreign to yours truly).

I've seen the book in bookshops over the years, but didn't feel like paying full retail for it. Didn't know it's even on Amazon, but there's only one used copy left. (I'll sell you mine for less, haha).

Once Removed is about Graham Wallace, a quantity surveyor on a 2 year contract in Malaysia who gets into interesting misadventures looking for love, in his job and in his off-time. In diary form, the book is set in 1997, people (like me) reading it in this new decade might render it a little dated (but still familiar), what with the guy's attempts at getting on the World Wide Web.

I thought it was pretty funny and found it hard to put down for a first novel - I kept on reading as much as I could. Shocking, not so much. There's some mentions of shagging, but nothing terribly graphic. Still can't find anything in the book that might've inspired the title.