Quite possibly his role as personal economic advisor to Aung San Suu Kyi has caused Sean Turnell’s detention. But he is also widely known and respected for his writing and commentary on the Myanmar economy. If claims are true that the coup was motivated by personal economic considerations, then there could be additional reasons for this detention. Certainly, his NIAS monograph, Fiery Dragons, was a brilliant deconstruction of money and power in Burma-Myanmar’s recent history and documented the intimate role the military has played in the country’s economy, especially since the first coup in 1962.