A
Killing Smile begins the Land of Smiles trilogy. Lawrence
Baring, a successful Los Angeles attorney, had lost his wife,
Sarah. He discovers after her suicide that Sarah had maintained
a long-distance affair with Robert Tuttle. Baring travels to Bangkok
for a showdown with Tuttle who has become a long-time resident
of the Bangkok underworld.
In
this cult classic tale of betrayal and exploitation, Baring and
Tuttle circle each other inside Thai culture where language and
way of life deliver multidimensional surprises. In his quest for
revenge, Baring learns true meaning of friendship and the secrets
behind the smile.
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Praise
“The
whole effect is very real— particularly the revelation
of those razor teeth back of the Smile.”
—Gore Vidal
“Moore
is a master of detail . . . a pioneer, daring and inventive.”
—The Nation
“I
was knocked out by the sensitivity of the writing, the textures
of the characters, the many levels of feeling. The outcome is
one of the finest male bonding stories I have ever come across
and I kick myself that I didn’t write this novel.”
—Stirling Silliphant, Oscar winner for In the Heat
of the Night
“The
portrait of Tuttle as an expatriate shipwrecked in an alien tropic
brings to mind Theroux's Jack Flowers.”
—The Japan Times
“In
A Killing Smile Moore succeeds in translating for a Western
audience the inside of how Thais think. Above all he describes
with an objective, non-judgemental eye the raw pathos, the light
and shadow of the world that never surfaces in the glossy tourist
catalogues.”
—Fabio Novel, Thriller Magazine (Italy)
“Critically
regarded as the best Western author today whose books focus on
this country (e.g., A Killing Smile).”
—Bangkok Post
