Zero Hour in Phnom Pehn (Cut Out)
β Scribed by Christopher G. Moore
- Publisher
- HeavenLakePress
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction andWinner of 2007 Premier Special Director Book Award Semana Negra, SpainIn the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid on the violence. Gunfire can still be heard nightly in Phnom Penh, where Vietnamese prostitutes try to hook UN peacekeepers from the balcony of the Lido Bar.Calvino traces leads on a missing farang from Bangkok to war-torn Cambodia, through the Russian market, hospitals, nightclubs, news briefings, and UNTAC Headquarters. Calvino's buddy, Colonel Pratt, knows something that Calvino does not: the missing man is connected with the jewels stolen from the Saudi royal family. Calvino quickly finds out that he is not the only one looking for the missing farang."The story is fast-paced and entertaining. Even outside of his Bangkok comfort zone, Moore shows he is one of the best chroniclers of the expat diaspora."βThe Daily Yomiuri
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
*This is a city that seduces dreamers . . . then eats their dreams.* Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudder is the bestand
### From Publishers Weekly The prolific author's humanity and the immediacy of his understated style are again evidenced in his seventh mystery related by Matt Scudder: ex-NYPD officer, recovering alcoholic, and now private detective ( When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes , etc.). This novel opens with
### Product Description Love, money, sex, attention, and even drugs are great if taken in moderation. Often we take in more than we should and essentially become freaks. That is no exception for Joann, Sabrina, Corey, and Brandon. While all are different, their obsessive nature is what unites them.
### Product Description Love, money, sex, attention, and even drugs are great if taken in moderation. Often we take in more than we should and essentially become freaks. That is no exception for Joann, Sabrina, Corey, and Brandon. While all are different, their obsessive nature is what unites them.