SUMMARY: Sonchai JitpleecheepJohn Burdetts inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soulis summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, i
The Godfather of Kathmandu
β Scribed by John Burdett
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 030727294X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Sonchai Jitpleecheep--John Burdett's inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul--is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru--and has forty million dollars' worth of heroin for sale.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
### From Publishers Weekly The vivid portrait of 21st-century Thailand in part redeems the meandering plot of Burdett's fourth thriller to feature corrupt Bangkok police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after _Bangkok Haunts_). Jitpleecheep, a marijuana-smoking Buddhist whose marriage collapsed afte
### From Publishers Weekly The vivid portrait of 21st-century Thailand in part redeems the meandering plot of Burdett's fourth thriller to feature corrupt Bangkok police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after *Bangkok Haunts*). Jitpleecheep, a marijuana-smoking Buddhist whose marriage collapsed afte
SUMMARY: Sonchai JitpleecheepJohn Burdetts inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soulis summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, i
SUMMARY: Sonchai JitpleecheepβJohn Burdettβs inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soulβis summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy
Sonchai JitpleecheepβJohn Burdettβs inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soulβis summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more i