Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, & there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact
- more or less
- despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile & outrageous crimes & criminals in Bangkok. But for his newest assignment, everything he knows about his city
- & himself
- will be a mere starting point. He`s put in charge of the highest-profile criminal case in Thailand
- an attempt to bring an end to trafficking in human organs. He sets in motion a massive sting operation & stays at its center, traveling to Phuket, Hong Kong, Dubai, Shanghai, & Monte Carlo. He draws in a host of unwitting players that
Includes:: an aging rock star wearing out his second liver & the mysterious, diabolical, albeit gorgeous co-queenpins of the international body-parts trade: the Chinese twins known as the Vultures. & yet, it`s closer to home that Sonchai will discover things getting really dicey: rumors will reach him suggesting that his ex-prostitute wife, Chanya, is having an affair. Will Sonchai be enlightened enough-forget Buddha, think jealous husb&-to cope with his very own compromised & compromising world? All will be revealed here, in John Burdett`s most mordantly funny, propulsive, fiendishly entertaining novel yet. Praise for John Burdett & his Bangkok novels: ” Cracking East meets West thriller introducing a half-Thai, half-American cop whose Buddhist beliefs are as important as his forensic skills. Terrific”. (” Observer”). ”A fantastic new thriller with an avenging Buddhist cop as its central character”. (” Mail on Sunday”). ” Read this book, savour the language
- it`s the last & most compelling word in thrillers”. (James Ellroy). ” Impeccably researched, this is sometimes poetic, often exotic, & totally hardcore”. (” Daily Mirror”). ” Burdett`s fever-dream mysteries, set in Bangkok, recast the police procedural as psychedelic peep show”. (” The New Yorker”). ” Burdett is purely & simply a wonderful writer”. (The Washington Post Book World).