<P><I>Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*</I></P><P>Greedy Lords, dubious heroes, wicked relations and innocents in peril - today's world sounds like a grim fairytale!</P><P>Travelling along the infamous 'Axis of Evil' led to Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands - now he's going deeper into the world's darkest corners to explore a rogue's gallery of troubled nations.</P><P>Every country has its problems, but some problems seem so vexed, so intractable, so absurd, you can only shake your head. Tony Wheeler trains his well-travelled eyes on some of these places and attempts to understand how things got so messed up. Along the way he gets stoned (with the thrown variety) in Palestine, scores a speeding ticket in Zimbabwe, gets arrested for photographing a bar in the Congo, and visits Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad in Pakistan. Join Tony and find out if there's a happily-ever-after in these tales from the dark side.</P><P><B>Author</B>: Tony Wheeler</P><P><B>About Lonely Planet</B>: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.</P><P><I>TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category</I></P><P><I>'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times</I></P><P><I>'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) </I></P><P><I>*#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013</I></P>