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Alfred A. Knopf
May 2005
Featuring: Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep; Chanya; Colonel Vikorn
320 pages
ISBN: 1400040450
Hardcover
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Thriller Police Procedural
From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, a head-
spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the
inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. We return to District 8—the underbelly of Bangkok’s
underworld—where a dramatically mutilated dead body is
found. It’s bad: he was CIA. It gets worse: the murderer
appears to be Chanya—a tough, sweet working girl who’s the
highest earner at The Old Man’s Club, jointly owned by
Sonchai’s mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that
involves Al Qaeda and Thailand’s porous southern border
where, since 9/11, the CIA has been an obviously covert
presence. But the truth will be harder to come by, and it
will require Sonchai to find an ever-more-delicate balance
between his ambition and his Buddhism, while running the
gamut of Bangkok’s drug dealers, prostitutes, bad cops,
worse military, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart
(Chanya!)—most of which he can handle. But even Sonchai is
not prepared for what he discovers at the end of his
investigation. Piercingly smart and funny, densely atmospheric, and—as we
already know to expect from John Burdett—packing a surprise
at every turn, Bangkok Tattoo is sensational.
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