β Scribed by John Burdett
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edgeda thriller unlike any other. Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snakea charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras. Two copsthe only two in the city not on the takearrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive: Sonchai Jitpleecheepa devout Buddhist, equally versed in the sacred and the profaneson of a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. and a Thai bar girl whose subsequent international clientele contributed richly to Sonchai's sophistication. Now, his partner dead, Sonchai is doubly compelled to find the murderer, to maneuver through the world he knows all to wellillicit drugs, prostitution, infinite corruptionand into a realm he has never before encountered: the moneyed underbelly of the city, where desire rules and the human body is no less custom-designable than a raw hunk of jade. And where Sonchai tracks the killerand a predator of an even more sinister variety. Thick with the authenticand hallucinogenicatmosphere of Bangkok, crowded with astonishing characters, uniquely smart and skeptical, literary and wildly readable,Bangkok 8is one of a kind.
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