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“A skillfully crafted, addictive ride through one of the planet’s most raw and vivid cities. Moore and Calvino define the dark pungent cocktail that is Asian noir.” —Eliot Pattison, author of the Inspector Shan series ............... “It’s abouttime everyone discovered Bangkok PI Vincent Calvino.” —Globe and Mail ............... “Every big city has its fictional detective; and Bangkok’s is Vincent Calvino.” —Bangkok 101 ............... “This series belongs on every Asian crime list.” —Booklist
 
     
 

"Christopher G. Moore has long been a big name in crime for
his Vincent Calvino books are based on the exploits of an American private eye
in Thailand's seedy underbelly."
The Independent (UK)

The Wisdom of Beer

On 29th January 2012 I was the guest speaker at the Pattaya Expat Club. The organizers had a surprise waiting for me. As I was going
to talk about The Wisdom of Beer, my latest novel, which features a macaw named Dr. Love (who as taught to curse in Scottish),
a macaw was produced and perched on my shoulder. I spoke for about 30 minutes. Though speaking with a large bird on your shoulder does
test one's powers of concentration. The bird, at the end of about thirty minutes, started to nibble on my ear. I took that as a signal that
I should be wrapping up the talk. Not one minute later the macaw (now returned to its owner) took one of the largest bowel evacuations in
recorded history on the hotel floor. Lesson learned: never share a stage with a child or small animal. That has been conventional wisdom for
many years. But no one ever explained the full extend of the dangers. Now I know."


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The Wisdom of Beer
Published on 9th January 2012


We have a good news: The Cultural Detective is the book of the year.
Don't forget to buy your copy.

"It is perhaps a judge of excellence that I would pull down one book from the shelves, read it again,
and thoroughly enjoy it once more? If so, then The Cultural Detective by Christopher G. Moore
(ISBN 978-616-90393-8-9, Heaven Lake Press, 2011) is an excellent book. Not only a good book,
but for me, the best book reviewed in 2011." --Pattaya Mail.

 

 

The Wisdom of Beer

The annual Cobra Gold joint military operation arrives in Pattaya dumping thousands of US naval and marine personnel on the city. Russian Mafia and local Chinese-Thai gangsters decide this is a good time to rob a warehouse filled with war weapons. Duvel, a retired American, a caretaker for his aged Thai stepmother, also looks over the well-being of foreign expats as a member of the Pattaya Foreign Volunteer Police. Duvel, who leads a US Navy shore patrol down Walking Street, becomes entangled in the lives of criminals planning a warehouse heist. Meanwhile, Duvel’s mother, with the assistance of a macaw and a Moscow escort worker, slowly unravels the ancient secret formula of hell beer. As the double-crosses multiply, the fate of the heist and hell beer formula is in the hands of the winner of a Pattaya katoey beauty pageant.

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click to read more..Recent interviews:

Christopher recently spoke at the Pattaya City Expats club. A summary of his talk is reported in the Pattaya Mail. new

Traversing, June, 2011

Bangkok Post: Tales needing telling

BangkokPodCast

Legal Nomads

Magick Papers & Nightlife Thailand

Infomation about the Calvino series:

Cliffhangers Crime Fiction

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Crime Awards

On 16th September, The Private Eye Writers of America announced that Asia Hand, the second book in the Vincent Calvino private eye series, had won the Shamus Award in the Best Paperback Original category for the Shamus Awards. The Shamus Awards are sponsored annually by the Private Eye Writers of America.

Other literary awards for the Vincent Calvino series:
  • 2004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction
  • Winner of 2007 Premier Special Director Book Award Semana Negra, Spain

 


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There are 15 signed (double signed--author and cover illustrator) and number copies of The Corruptionist. The book has become a bestseller in Thailand, ranking #9 on the Asia Books bestseller list which tracks sales nationwide. Each book is signed by Christopher G. Moore and Chris Coles. Each one is number e.g., 1/15, 2/15, etc. The first books have already sold. If you want a special copy of this book, you can order here.

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Publication Date: 12 January 2012

BUY BANGKOK NOIR $15.95 ....here!
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The first ever noir anthology of Bangkok, twelve seasoned and internationally known—Thai and Western—writers have come together to make a powerful collection of crime fiction short stories that portray the dark side of this Asian metropolis where the lives of most citizens seem as far away from heaven as its Thai name Krungthep is distant from its meaning—City of Angels.

Signed copies for $39.95
Signed by following authors; John Burdett, Christopher G. Moore, Eric Stone, Stephen Leather, Colin Cotterill, Tew Bunnag, Vasit Dejkunjorn, and Collin Piprell.

*Please note that we (publisher) will try our best to have as many authors' signatures as possible, if not all, on your Bangkok Noir signed edition.*

The stories, about crooks, cops, gangsters, hit-men, bar girls, shaman and street vendors, show the underbelly of Bangkok. It isn't pretty, but as the first of its kind, Bangkok Noir is a good read.
Bangkok Post

Bangkok Noir, with its twelve short stories, makes up a brief but exciting read. The anthology is part of a more and more distinct Bangkok noir movement that brings to the surface the darker sides of this city, exposing all its ugliness, hardships, and injustices that the powers-to-be would like kept at bay, right where they are: in the dark. —Review by Voicu Mihnea Simandan

Review: The Nation: Thrill of the shady side new


9 Gold Bullets

9 Gold Bullets
Twelfth in the Vincent Calvino P.I. series

A priceless collection of 9 gold bullet coins issued during the Reign of Rama V has gone missing along with a Thai coin collector. Local police find a link between the missing Thai coins and Calvino's childhood friend, Josh Stein, who happens to be in Bangkok on an errand for his new Russian client. This old friend and his personal and business entanglements with the Russian underworld take Calvino back to New York, along with Pratt. The gritty, dark vision of 9 Gold Bullets is tracked through the eyes of a Thai cop operating on a foreign turf, and a private eye expatriated long enough to find himself a stranger in his hometown. As the intrigue behind the missing coins moves between New York andBangkok, and the levels of deception increase, Calvino discovers the true nature of friendship and where he belongs.

Praise for the Vincent Calvino series:

“Moore's understanding of the dynamics of Thai society has always impressed, but considering current events, the timing of his latest [The Corruptionist] is absolutely amazing.”
Mark Schreiber, The Japan Times

Politics . . . has a role in the series, more so now than earlier. What with corruption during elections and coups afterwards, the denizens watch with bemusement the unlikelihood of those in office serving their terms. Moore captures this in his books. Thought-provoking columnists don't do it better. . . . Moore is putting Thailand on the map.
—Bernard Trink, Bangkok Post

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