[bksvol-discuss] Submitted: Bangkok haunts
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:11:42 -0500
All,
I've just submitted for validatiojnj the following superb novel:
Bangkok haunts, by John Burdett, 2007.
From the book jacket:
onchai Jitpleecheep the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led
us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo returns in this
blistering new novel.
Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his
beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the
video he's just been sent anonymously: "Few
crimes make us fear for the evolution of our
species. I am watching one right now."
He's watching a snuff film. And the person
dying before his disbelieving eyes is Damrong
a woman he once loved obsessively and, now it
becomes clear, endlessly. And there is something
more: something at the end of the film that leaves
Sonchai both figuratively and literally haunted.
While his investigation will lead him through
the office of the ever-scheming police captain,
Vikorn ("Don't spoil a great case with too much
perfectionism," he advises Sonchai); in and out of
the influence of a perhaps psychotic wandering
monk; and eventually into the gilded rooms of the
most exclusive men's club in Bangkok (whose
members will do anything to protect their identities,
and to explore their most secret fantasies), it
also leads him to his own simple bedroom where
he sleeps next to his pregnant wife while his
dreams deliver him up to Damrong . . .
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