Dr Siri Paiboun may be in his seventy-third year but he's still as sturdy as a jungle boar
- & as crafty as one. Reluctant coroner to the Lao People's Democratic Republic he's been despatched to the country's mountainous north where the sudden appearance of a mummified arm protruding from a concrete path laid in front of the President's new mansion has caused an understandable degree of embarrassment. Dr Siri's disinterment & autopsy of the body attached to the arm provide some grisly surprises but it is his gifts as a shaman that put the septuagenarian doctor on the trail of the killer. As Siri & his team close in they must tackle a marriage proposal brave the perils of the life on the open road & come face-to-face with a horrific sacrificial ritual. Is it any wonder Dr Siri takes up disco dancing?