F.E. Beyer writes about dead-end jobs, travel, history and crime. In 2021 he published the noir novella 'Buenos Aires Triad,' a realistic tale of low-end criminals in Argentina's capital. To write this book, featuring Chinese triads and Venezuelan immigrants, Beyer drew on his hours of reading Argentinian newspapers and time spent in China. His articles and reviews have appeared in the South China Morning Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Asian Review of Books, Inside Indonesia, and Travelogues by Remote Lands. He lives in New Zealand.