"Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures"

Dr. Andrew Thomson, a UN worker for the last 12 years, has been "let go" after writing a tell-all book about the sleeziness and utter corruption at the U.N.:

December 16, 2004

United Nations officials will not renew the contract of a New Zealand doctor who co-wrote a controversial memoir about life on the front lines of peacekeeping in the 1990s.

Andrew Thomson, who has worked for the UN for 12 years in New York, Cambodia, Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda, received a letter three weeks ago declining to renew his contract.

Dr Thomson and two colleagues wrote Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story From Hell on Earth, which was published in June.

The book reads like an illicit peek into the three's diaries during a decade of adventure and angst, and contains graphic descriptions of romantic escapades.

It also delivers harsh judgements on the UN as genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia happened under its watch. "If blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run," it says. "Or else get weapons. Your lives are worth so much less than theirs."

Nice!