About
the Author
"Think
Dashiell Hammett in Bangkok." —San
Francisco Chronicle |
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Christopher
G. Moore is a Canadian writer who once taught law at the University
of British Columbia. After his first book His Lordship’s
Arsenal was published in New York to a critical acclaim in
1985, Moore became a full-time writer and has so far written 22
novels, a non-fiction and one collection of inter-locked short stories.
Moore
has attained somewhat of a cult status among his readers in Asia
and Europe and has an increasingly strong following in North America.
Moore is probably best known by his cult classics, Land of Smiles
Trilogy, his behind-the-smiles study of his adopted country,
Thailand, and his highly popular Vincent Calvino Private Eye series.
Macleans
has best summarized Moore’s work: “Moore’s noir
thriller and literary fiction—like Graham Greene, he alternates
between ‘entertainment’ and serious novels—are
subtle and compelling evocations of a part of the world rarely seen
through our eyes.”
Gore
Vidal said of the Land of Smiles Trilogy: “The whole
effect is very real—particularly the revelation of those razor
teeth back of the Smile.”
January
Magazine has said that the Vincent Calvino series “recalls
the international ‘entertainments’ of Graham Greene
or John le Carré, but the hard-bitten worldview and the cynical,
bruised idealism of his battered hero is right out of Chandler.”
The third novel in the series (Cut Out or Stunde Null
in Phnom Penh) has won the prestigious German Critics Award
for Crime Fiction (Deutscher Krimi Preis) in 2004.
Moore
has been called “complex, moody, rewarding” (Chicago
Sun-Times) as well as a writer “in the great literary
tradition that hasn’t really touched down since Somerset Maugham”
(The Globe and Mail). He is often praised for his in-depth
knowledge and sharp insights about the part of the world he writes
about. “One of Moore’s greatest strengths is his knowledge
of Southeast Asian history,” said Newsweek. He is
known, in the words of the National Post, for the way he “captures
the bewitching spirit and rice-cooker passions of Southeast Asia.”
To the Vancouver Sun, Moore is “the most important
recreator of Thailand for a western audience.” In Thailand,
where Moore has lived for the past two decades, the Bangkok Post
said, “To paraphrase Graham Greene in another context, Moore
is our man in Bangkok.”
His
latest novel is 9
Gold Bullets.
The
Vincent Calvino Private Eye series
2004 German Critics Award
for Crime Fiction and Winner of 2007 Premier Special Director Book
Award
Semana Negra, Spain
Samus Award nominee 2011
“Vincent
Calvino is one of the most notable detectives of modern crime fiction.”
–-Hartmut Wilmes, Kolnische Rundschau
Spirit
House
Asia Hand
Zero
Hour in Phnom Penh (Cut Out)
Comfort Zone
The Big
Weird
Cold Hit
Minor Wife
Pattaya 24/7
The
Risk of Infidelity Index
Paying
Back Jack
The Corruptionist
9
Gold Bullets
The
Land of Smiles series
A
Killing Smile
A
Bewitching Smile
A
Haunting Smile
Other
novels
His
Lordship’s Arsenal
Tokyo Joe
Red
Sky Falling (Saint Anne)
God
of Darkness
Chairs
Waiting
for the Lady
Gambling
on Magic
The
Wisdom of Beer NEW
Non-fiction
Heart
Talk
The
Vincent Calvino Reaser's Guide
The
Cultural Detective
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