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Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edgeda thriller unlike any other.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snakea charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Two copsthe only two in the city not on the takearrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive: Sonchai Jitpleecheepa devout Buddhist, equally versed in the sacred and the profaneson of a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. and a Thai bar girl whose subsequent international clientele contributed richly to Sonchais sophistication.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Now, his partner dead, Sonchai is doubly compelled to find the murderer, to maneuver through the world he knows all to wellillicit drugs, prostitution, infinite corruptionand into a realm he has never before encountered: the moneyed underbelly of the city, where desire rules and the human body is no less custom-designable than a raw hunk of jade. And where Sonchai tracks the killerand a predator of an even more sinister variety.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Thick with the authenticand hallucinogenicatmosphere of Bangkok, crowded with astonishing characters, uniquely smart and skeptical, literary and wildly readable, u003cbu003eBangkok 8u003c/bu003e is one of a kind.