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The Hot Countries

✍ Scribed by Hallinan, Timothy

Book ID
109034113
Publisher
Soho Press
Year
2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
237 KB
Series
Poke Rafferty 7
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781616954468

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

When Poke Rafferty first went to Bangkok to write a travel guide, some of the old-timers in the Expat Bar on Patpong Road helped him make sense of the city. Now these men--many of whom have been living in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War--are growing old and, in some cases, frail. When a talkative stranger named Arthur Varney turns up, they accept him without suspicion, failing to see that he's actually using them to get to Poke Rafferty.

Varney wants two things: money Poke doesn't have and a person whom Poke is unwilling to hand over. It becomes apparent quite quickly that there's nothing Varney won't do to secure his goal. As his actions threaten the foundation of Poke's life in Thailand, the withered men of the Expat Bar discover that they might still be a force to reckon with.

From the Hardcover edition.

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