Bangkok Tattoo
by John Burdett
Paperback
Rs 628
| Genre: | Adventure Fiction |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | July 03, 2006 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780552154710 |
| ISBN10: | 0552154717 |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Dimensions: | 4.17 x 7.01 x 1.1 inches |
| Weight: | 229.63 g |
About the Book
John Burdett's extraordinary head-spinning new novel featuring Sonchai Jitpleecheep, Thai Buddhist detective extraordinaire Bangkok, rich in history and spirituality, crowded with temples, markets and canals, is also a city shrouded in shadows. Polluted, corrupt, infamous as the sex capital of the world, it is a place where wealth, poverty and unimaginable evil walk hand in hand. In District 8, the underbelly of Bangkok's crime world, a dramatically mutilated body is found in a hotel bedroom. It looks bad: the corpse - who's been flayed - is CIA. And it gets worse when the self-confessed murderer is the beautiful Chanya - the best 'working girl' at The Old Man's Club, a brothel owned jointly by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves an Al-Qaeda terrorist cell located in a southern Thai border-town where, since 9/11, the CIA has also had a covert presence. So far so good: but the truth will be harder to