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Bangkok Tattoo
Bangkok Tattoo
Author: John Burdett
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 get...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781400040452
ISBN-10: 1400040450
Publication Date: 5/10/2005
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep returns from Bangkok 8 to narrate another thriller set in the title city, but this story has a considerably different feel. As before, it starts with a bang: the top sex worker in the Old Man's Club (jointly owned by his mother, boss, and himself) returns from a call bloodied and stoned on opium. The murdered client turns out to be CIA, and soon we find ourselves following Sonchai to Thailand's porous southern Muslim border as a part of a cover-up that involves drugs, al-Qaeda and American spies. We are reunited with a cast of colorful characters, but Sonchai functions as a slightly more jaded narrator to his farang audience, coordinating the telling of his beloved prostitute Chanya's story rather than bringing us along for the action. Nonetheless, a fun continuation with Sonchai whose title will eventually make sense.


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