Twenty
years after the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam is opening to
the outside world. There is a smell of fast money in the air and
poverty in the streets. Business is booming and in austere Ho
Chi Minh City a new generation of foreigners have arrived to make
money and not war. Against the backdrop of Vietnam’s economic
miracle, Comfort Zone reveals a a divided people still not reconciled
with their past and unsure of their future.
Calvino
is hired by an ex-special forces vet, whose younger brother uncovers
corruption and fraud in the emerging business world in which his
clients are dealing. But before Calvino even leaves Bangkok, there
have already been two murders, one in Saigon and one in Bangkok.
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Praise
“Moore
hits home with more of everything in Comfort Zone. There is
a balanced mix of story-line, narrative, wisdom, knowledge as
well as love, sex, and murder.”
—Thailand Times
“In
a murder mystery with a plot that is better executed than any
Central Intelligence Agency black bag operation, the Bangkok expatriate
crowd have moved to boomtown Saigon. Like a Japanese gardener
who captures the land and the sky and recreates it in the backyard,
Moore’s genius is in portraying the Southeast Asian heartscape
behind the tourist industry hotel gloss.”
—The Daily Yomiuri
“Comfort
Zone is a good read—an up-to-date 90s feel.”
—Accent Thai
“In
Comfort Zone, our Bangkok-based P.I. is hired to go to Vietnam
to find the killer of a young American lawyer. He digs, discovering
layers of intrigue. He’s stalked by hired killers and falls
in love with a Hanoi girl. Can he trust her? The reader is hooked.”
—NTUC Lifestyle (Singapore)
