Asia Hand
Published on 1. September 2018
288 pages
978-0-8021-9686-6 (ISBN)
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Shamus Award Winner: A disbarred American lawyer-turned-PI tracks down a killer: "Think Dashiell Hammett in Bangkok" (
San Francisco Chronicle).
It's the Year of the Monkey in Bangkok. But expat Vincent Calvino's Chinese New Year celebration has been interrupted. Thai cops have fished the body of a farang-foreign-cameraman from Lumpini Park Lake, and CNN is running dramatic footage of several Burmese soldiers on the Thailand border executing students.
Calvino follows the trail of the dead man to a feature film crew, where he hits the wall of silence. On the other side of that wall, Calvino and Colonel Pratt discover an elite film unit of old Asia hands with connections to influential people in Southeast Asia. They are about to find themselves matched against a set of farangs conditioned for urban survival and willing to go for a knockout punch.
"Highly recommended to readers of hard-boiled detective fiction, including series set in Bangkok (especially John Burdett's Sonchai Jitplecheep novels) as well as the classic American tough-guy authors (Raymond Chandler or, more recently, Robert B.Parker)." - Booklist
"When Americans discover Christopher G.Moore, they're going to strip the bookstores bare of his work."-T.Jefferson Parker
It's the Year of the Monkey in Bangkok. But expat Vincent Calvino's Chinese New Year celebration has been interrupted. Thai cops have fished the body of a farang-foreign-cameraman from Lumpini Park Lake, and CNN is running dramatic footage of several Burmese soldiers on the Thailand border executing students.
Calvino follows the trail of the dead man to a feature film crew, where he hits the wall of silence. On the other side of that wall, Calvino and Colonel Pratt discover an elite film unit of old Asia hands with connections to influential people in Southeast Asia. They are about to find themselves matched against a set of farangs conditioned for urban survival and willing to go for a knockout punch.
"Highly recommended to readers of hard-boiled detective fiction, including series set in Bangkok (especially John Burdett's Sonchai Jitplecheep novels) as well as the classic American tough-guy authors (Raymond Chandler or, more recently, Robert B.Parker)." - Booklist
"When Americans discover Christopher G.Moore, they're going to strip the bookstores bare of his work."-T.Jefferson Parker
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Christopher G. Moore is the author of nine novels starring Vincent Calvino, and the winner of the Deutscher Krimi Preis, the most prestigious award for crime fiction in German. He has lived in Bangkok since 1988.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- One Monkey Shines
- Two Three Days Earlier Chinese New Year's Day-Hungry Ghosts Wandering
- Three Dead-End Howl
- Four War Crimes
- Five the Color of Death
- Six Fresh Start
- Seven Third Shift
- Eight a Bridge Too Far
- Nine Sacred Fire
- Ten Queen Bitch
- Eleven Sleeping Dog Mountain
- Twelve Covert Unit
- Thirteen Jao Mae Thapthim
- Fourteen Love Nest Bar
- Fifteen Bus Dancing
- Sixteen Melody's Part
- Seventeen Screen Credits
- Eighteen the Shaman
- Chapter 19 Show Business
- Twenty The Rewrite Specialist
- Twenty-One Third Act
