The
Bangkok police already have a confession by a nineteen-year-old
drug addict who has admitted to the murder of a British computer
wizard, Ben Hoadly. From the bruises on his face shown at the
press conference, it is clear that the young suspect had some
help from the police in the making of his confession. The case
is wrapped up. Only there are some loose ends that the police
and just about everyone else is happy to over look.
The
search for the killer of Ben Hoadley plunges Calvino into the
dark side of Bangkok, where professional hit men have orders to
stop him. From the world of thinner addicts, dope dealers, fortunetellers,
and high-class call girls, Calvino peels away the mystery surrounding
the death of the English ex-public schoolboy who had a lot of
dubious friends.
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Praise
“Well-written,
tough and bloody.”
—Bernard Knight, Tangled Web (UK)
“A
thinking man’s Philip Marlowe, Calvino is a cynic on the
surface but a romantic at heart. Calvino . . . found himself in
Bangkok—the end of the world for a whole host of bizarre
foreigners unwilling, unable, or uninterested in going home.”
—The Daily Yomiuri
“A
worthy example of a serial character, Vinee Calvino is human
and convincing. [He] is an incarnate of the composite of the
many expatriate characters who have burned the bridge to their
pasts.”
—Thriller Magazine (Italy)
“For
those who love Asia, they will devour Moore’s novels. He
opens [Bangkok] in her darkest, most amusing facets. He reveals
the inhabitants’ mindsets, their secrets and their temptations.
Bangkok is his central figure.”
—Stadtmagazin Krefeld
“A
complex and suggestive plot set in the underworld of Bangkok,
full of foreign inhabitants. With all her contradictions, the
city is more than a backdrop. She is alive.”
—Entwicklungspolitik
“Best
in this Spring. Unionverslag brings the best selling author Christopher
G. Moore to Germany. Hopefully more [of his novels] will follow.”
—Ultimo
“Good,
that there are still real crime writers. Christopher G. Moore’s
[Spirit House] is colourful and crafty.”
—Johannes Kaiser, Hessischer Rundfunk
“Moore
writes brilliantly and thrillingly.”
—Schweizer Familie
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