A
beautiful American blond is found dead with a large bullet hole
in her head in the house of her ex-boyfriend. A famous Hollywood
screen-writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone
except Calvino’s client believes Samantha McNeal has committed
suicide.
In
the early days of the Internet, Sam ran with a young and wild
expat crowd in Bangkok. As Calvino slides into a world where people
are dead serious about sex, money and fame, he unearths a hedonistic
com-munity where the ritual of death is the ultimate high.
Praise
“The
Big Weird is an excellent read, charming, amusing, insightful,
complex, localised yet startlingly universal in its themes.”
—Guide of Bangkok
“A
good read, fast-paced and laced with so many of the locales so
familiar to the expat denizens of Bangkok.”
—Art of Living (Thailand)
“Like
a noisy, late-night Thai restaurant, Moore serves up tongue-burming
spices that swallow up the literature of Generation X and Cyberpsace
as if they were merely sticky rice.”
—The Daily Yomiuri
“Whether
you are a local, resident or a tourist, there are golden nuggets
to be found in The Big Weird.”
—Bangkok Post Sunday Magazine
“Highly
entertaining.”
—Bangkok Post
“The
Big Weird exemplifies a writer who is in control of his material.
[It]demonstrates that at last we have an author who understands
the abyss between the dreams and aspirations of westerners hoping
for a new life in an Asian land and the often-harsh reality that
they find.”
—Professor Paul Wilson, Criminologist and Dean, Humanities
and Social Science, Bond University
