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Publication Date: 8 May 2012

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Published on 9th January 2012

“The plot revolves around a septuagenarian Thai lady and a macaw, the recipe for Chinese Hell Beer, an American beer bar owner,
the Russian mafia, the local Chinese godfather and son and the American Marines on the Cobra Gold exercises.
Keeping the plot moving along is a Moscow hooker with ambition. And there is plenty happening.

Christopher Moore is an excellent story teller. [He] keeps your interest going all the way through. The plot has many twists and turns,
and Moore manages to keep more than three balls in the air at one time.... Anyone who knows Pattaya will finally put the book down
with a large smile on their face, if not a real guffaw.”
—Lang Reid, Pattaya Mail

The Wisdom of Beer

The annual Cobra Gold joint military operation arrives in Pattaya dumping thousands of US naval and marine personnel on the city. Russian Mafia and local Chinese-Thai gangsters decide this is a good time to rob a warehouse filled with war weapons. Duvel, a retired American, a caretaker for his aged Thai stepmother, also looks over the well-being of foreign expats as a member of the Pattaya Foreign Volunteer Police. Duvel, who leads a US Navy shore patrol down Walking Street, becomes entangled in the lives of criminals planning a warehouse heist. Meanwhile, Duvel’s mother, with the assistance of a macaw and a Moscow escort worker, slowly unravels the ancient secret formula of hell beer. As the double-crosses multiply, the fate of the heist and hell beer formula is in the hands of the winner of a Pattaya katoey beauty pageant.

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“On 29th January 2012 I was the guest speaker at the Pattaya Expat Club. The organizers had a surprise waiting for me. As I was going
to talk about The Wisdom of Beer, my latest novel, which features a macaw named Dr. Love (who as taught to curse in Scottish),
a macaw was produced and perched on my shoulder. I spoke for about 30 minutes. Though speaking with a large bird on your shoulder does
test one's powers of concentration. The bird, at the end of about thirty minutes, started to nibble on my ear. I took that as a signal that
I should be wrapping up the talk. Not one minute later the macaw (now returned to its owner) took one of the largest bowel evacuations in
recorded history on the hotel floor. Lesson learned: never share a stage with a child or small animal. That has been conventional wisdom for
many years. But no one ever explained the full extend of the dangers. Now I know."