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Welcome to BookCrossing, where we make the whole world a library! *authorauthor is the steward of the Little Free Library of Alexandria and Hancock (#9136) in Alexandria, Virginia. What fun! This is a themed release that is going out with the book "Bangkok Haunts" and a bowl of Thai noodles. So far so good: but the truth will be harder to come by, and it will require Sonchai to find an ever more delicate balance between his ambition (western) and his Buddhism (eastern), while he runs the gamut of Bangkok’s drug-dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, even worse military generals, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart.Ĭrowded with astonishing characters, redolent with the authentic, hallucinogenic atmosphere of Bangkok, with needle-sharp observations about the clash of cultures when East meets West, this is a literary thriller like no other.I'm releasing this book as part of a literary themed potluck at the home of authorauthor* for our annual BookCrossing holiday party. Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves an Al-Qaeda terrorist cell located in a southern Thai border-town where, since 9/11, the CIA has also had a covert presence. And it gets worse when the self-confessed murderer is the beautiful Chanya – the best ‘working girl’ at The Old Man’s Club, a brothel owned jointly by Sonchai’s mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. It looks bad: the corpse – who’s been flayed - is CIA. In District 8, the underbelly of Bangkok’s crime world, a dramatically mutilated body is found in a hotel bedroom. Polluted, corrupt, infamous as the sex capital of the world, it is a place where wealth, poverty and unimaginable evil walk hand in hand. Bangkok, rich in history and spirituality, crowded with temples, markets and canals, is also a city shrouded in shadows.
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