Christopher G. Moore

La ciudad de Bangkok es sacudida por grandes manifestaciones de carácter político. El caos y el miedo reinan entre los tailandeses y la comunidad de expatriados. El detective Vincent Calvino, mientras investiga una operacion de pirateria de medicamentos, se ve involucrado en el caso de asesinato de una joven tailandesa de diecinueve años y un abogado de mediana edad que han muerto la misma noche. Ambas muertes parecen estar conectadas con las investigaciones llevadas a cabo por Calvino. Sin embargo, el bufete de abogados niega tener conocimiento del caso y Calvino no tiene mas opcion que mantenerse al margen. Contratado por un grupo de amas de casas expatriadas que desean investigar a sus maridos, Calvino descubre la coalicion de fuerzas que le impide poner al descubierto la operacion de pirateria de medicamentos.

Tras el éxito de Hora cero en Phonm Pehn, llega la novela con la que si inició la saga del investigador Vincent Calvino. La muerte de Ben Hoadly conduce a Calvino a recorrer de nuevo la ciudad de Bangkok desde el distrito de Patpong hasta el barrio marginal de Klong Toey. Al adentrarse en la estructura de poder de los gangsteres, padrinos y policias corruptos, la busqueda del asesino de Ben Hoadly sume a Calvino en el lado oscuro de la capital tailandesa, en el mundo de los adictos al disolvente, los narcotraficantes, las adivinas y las prostitutas de lujo. ¿El movil? El de siempre: poder, dinero o celos.

In The Land of Smiles Trilogy, Christopher G. Moore peels back Thailands serene mask to reveal the human and supernatural forces beneath. In A Bewitching Smile, former schoolteacher Richard Breach leaves Bangkok for the ancient Lanna kingdom, drawn into a world where shamans, gamblers, and foreign dreamers cross dangerous moral boundaries. Searching for ritual knives and a dying friends truth, Breach becomes entangled with a woman whose beauty conceals a perilous secret. Moores prose fuses noir psychology with spiritual mystery, tracing how the promise of enlightenment turns seductiveand deadly. A stand-alone novel that bridges Western reason and Eastern belief, A Bewitching Smileaffirms Moores reputation as a master observer of Southeast Asias mystic realism.

Inside a secluded, lush estatelocated on the edge of Pattaya, an eccentric English-mans gardener is found hanged. Calvino has been hired to investigate. Calvino finds himself pulled deep into the shadows of the war against drugs, into Code Orange alerts to flash across the screen of American intelligence.In a story packed with twists and turns, Calvino traces the links from the gardeners past to the door of men with power and influence who have everything to lose if the mystery of the gardeners death is solved."Calvino does it again...well-developed characters and the pace keeps you reading well after you should have turned out the light."Farang Magazine (Thailand)"Intelligent and articulate, Moore offers a rich, passionate and original take on the private eye game, fans of the genre should definitely investigate, and fans of foreign intrigue will definitely enjoy."Kevin Burton Smith, January Magazine

Set during the recent turbulent times in Thailand, the 11th novel in the Calvino series centers around the street demonstrations and occupation of Government House in Bangkok.Hired by an American businessman, Calvino finds himself caught in the middle of a family conflict over a Chinese corporate takeover. This is no ordinary deal. Calvino and his client are up against powerful forces set to seize much more than a family business. As the bodies accumulate while he navigates Thailands business-political landmines, Calvino becomes increasingly entangled in a secret deal made by men who will stop at nothingand no onestanding in their way. But Calvino refuses to step aside.The Corruptionist captures with precision the undercurrents enveloping Bangkok, revealing multiple layers of betrayal and deception."Entertaining and devilishly informative."Tom Plate, Pacific Perspective"Moores understanding of the dynamics of Thai society has always impressed, but considering current events, the timing of his latest [The Corruptionist] is absolutely amazing."Mark Schreiber, The Japan Times

2004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction andWinner of 2007 Premier Special Director Book Award Semana Negra, SpainIn the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid on the violence. Gunfire can still be heard nightly in Phnom Penh, where Vietnamese prostitutes try to hook UN peacekeepers from the balcony of the Lido Bar.Calvino traces leads on a missing farang from Bangkok to war-torn Cambodia, through the Russian market, hospitals, nightclubs, news briefings, and UNTAC Headquarters. Calvinos buddy, Colonel Pratt, knows something that Calvino does not: the missing man is connected with the jewels stolen from the Saudi royal family. Calvino quickly finds out that he is not the only one looking for the missing farang."The story is fast-paced and entertaining. Even outside of his Bangkok comfort zone, Moore shows he is one of the best chroniclers of the expat diaspora."The Daily Yomiuri

Five foreigners have died in Bangkok. Were they drug overdose victims or victims of a serial killer? Calvino believes the evidence points to a serial killer who stalks tourists in Bangkok. The Thai police, including Colonel Pratt, dont buy his theory.Calvino teams up with an LAPD officer on a bodyguard assignment. Hidden forces pull them through swank shopping malls, rundown hotels, Klong Toey slum, and bars in the redlight district as they try to keep their man and themselves alive. As Calvino learns more about the bodies being shipped back to America, the secret of the serial killer is revealed."The story is plausible and riveting to the end."The Japan Times"Tight, intricate plotting, wickedly astute . . . Cold Hit will have you variously gasping, chuckling, nodding, tut-tutting, oh-yesing, and grinding your teeth throughout its 330 pages."Guide of Bangkok"The plot is equally tricky, brilliantly devised, and clear. One of the best crime fiction in the first half of the year."Ultimo Biedlefeld"[Cold Hit] is no standard thriller, but a suspense literature full of original metaphors."Saarbrucker Zeitung

A contemporary murder set in Bangkoka neighbor and friend, a young ex-hooker turned artist, is found dead by an American millionaires minor wife. Her rich expat husband hires Calvino to investigate.While searching for the killer in exclusive clubs and not-so-exclusive bars of Bangkok, Calvino discovers that a minor wifemia noihas everything to do with a womans status. From illegal cock fighting matches to elite Bangkok golf clubs, Calvino finds himself caught in the crossfire as he closes in on the murderer."What distinguishes Christopher G. Moore from other foreign authors setting their stories in the Land of Smiles is how much more he understands its mystique, the psyche of its populace and the futility of its round residents trying to fit into its square holes."Bangkok Post"Moore pursues in even greater detail in Minor Wife the changing social roles of Thai women (changing, but not always quickly or for the better) and their relations among themselves and across class lines and other barriers."Vancouver Sun

Calvino investigates the death of a friend, a Canadian painter. The medical examiner finds the young man has ingested an exit drug, and the police verdict of suicide seems justified. But in Bangkok appearances have a habit of deceiving. Sometimes jumpers are given a leg up in their leap to the next life. Fingering the helper can be a risky business, and for Calvino this promises to be one of those times.

Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam is opening to the outside world. There is a smell of fast money in the air and poverty in the streets. Business is booming and in austere Ho Chi Minh City a new generation of foreigners have arrived to make money and not war. Against the backdrop of Vietnams economic miracle, Comfort Zone reveals a a divided people still not reconciled with their past and unsure of their future.Calvino is hired by an ex-special forces vet, whose younger brother uncovers corruption and fraud in the emerging business world in which his clients are dealing. But before Calvino even leaves Bangkok, there have already been two murders, one in Saigon and one in Bangkok."Moore hits home with more of everything in Comfort Zone. There is a balanced mix of story-line, narrative, wisdom, knowledge as well as love, sex, and murder."Thailand Times"In a murder mystery with a plot that is better executed than any Central Intelligence Agency black bag operation, the Bangkok expatriate crowd have moved to boomtown Saigon. Like a Japanese gardener who captures the land and the sky and recreates it in the backyard, Moores genius is in portraying the Southeast Asian heartscape behind the tourist industry hotel gloss."The Daily Yomiuri

In Crackdown visual art becomes a powerful take down tool to push back against the oligarchs. People adjust to the surveillance state and its agents who are emergent forces. Post-coup Thailand is the setting as high tech competes with traditional power in a battle for hearts and minds. It is a noir landscape where Calvino finds himself ambushed as casualties from this battle leave behind a mystery or two. Calvino enters a world of ancient maps, political graffiti, student protestors and murder. The finger points at Calvino as the killer. He searches for allies who will help him prove his innocence.

A priceless collection of 9 gold bullet coins issued during the Reign of Rama V has gone missing along with a Thai coin collector. Local police find a link between the missing Thai coins and Calvinos childhood friend, Josh Stein, who happens to be in Bangkok on an errand for his new Russian client.

As foreigners rush into Myanmar with briefcases stuffed with plans and cash for hotels, shopping malls and high rises, they discover the old ways die hard. Vincent Calvinos case is to find a young British-Thai man gone missing in Myanmar, while his best friend and protector Colonel Pratt of the Royal Thai Police has an order to cut off the supply of cold pills from Myanmar used for the methamphetamine trade in Thailand.As one of the most noir novels in the Vincent Calvino series, Missing in Rangoon plays out beneath the moving shadows of the cross-border drug barons. Pratt and Calvinos lives are entangled with the invisible forces inside the old regime and their allies who continue to play by their own set of rules.

A beautiful American blond is found dead with a large bullet hole in her head in the house of her ex-boyfriend. A famous Hollywood screen-writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone except Calvinos client believes Samantha McNeal has committed suicide.In the early days of the Internet, Sam ran with a young and wild expat crowd in Bangkok. As Calvino slides into a world where people are dead serious about sex, money and fame, he unearths a hedonistic com-munity where the ritual of death is the ultimate high."The Big Weird is an excellent read, charming, amusing, insightful, complex, localised yet startlingly universal in its themes."Guide of Bangkok"A good read, fast-paced and laced with so many of the locales so familiar to the expat denizens of Bangkok."Art of Living (Thailand)

Its okay for Thais to believe in ghostsits their birthright. But why is Vincent Calvino seeing ghosts, and why are they so angry? Calvino is haunted by a series of deaths in Rangoon and Bangkok, when he stumbles onto a new murder casebut is it a new case, or an old one returned from the dead? A murder investigation leads Calvino inside an underworld network smuggling Rohingya out of illegal camps and detention centers. Calvino looks for the killer in the mystical Thai world of sword and marriage trees.The Marriage Tree reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFw4RX4zluoPraise"The Marriage Tree is a top tier crime novel set in a top tier city, Bangkok, to be enjoyed by crime fiction readers everywhere."Kevin Cummings, Chiang Mai City News

A noir investigation set in Bangkoks climate-changed future. It is the era of the Great Upheaval and the Resistance, a time when people split their lives between virtual reality and the real world of sunken streets and khlongs swallowed by rising seas, in a land where resources are stretched and the poor are thirsty.In the final book of the Vincent Calvino crime series, Calvino searches for a missing teenage "water boy," and ends up caught between a Chinese-controlled AI named Henrietta, hordes of desperate climate migrants, fanatic religious guilds and a new breed of supersmart scientists, all determined to stay alive.

Bullets are flying in Bangkok.When journalist George Snows BBC broadcast captures the crack of M-16 fire over Sanam Luang, expatriate writer Robert Tuttle is upcountry, listening in horror. As Bangkok erupts in violence, Tuttle races back to a city on fire where soldiers turn their guns on civilians, and the air hums with ghosts from every side of Thailands political divide.In A Haunting Smile, Christopher G. Moore paints an unforgettable portrait of a cityand a generationon the edge. Through the fragmented voices of short stories, letters, radio reports, and documentary film scripts, he reveals a cast of haunted souls: journalists, arms dealers, drifters, and bar girls caught in a web of moral confusion.At HQthe legendary Sukhumvit-Road nightspot where angels and devils trade dreams for cashthe living and the dead gather after midnight to barter their desires and bear witness to historys repeating nightmare.Moores Bangkok noir classic remains one of the few works of fiction to confront the massacre of May 1992, a dark chapter when ordinary citizens faced down tyranny in the streets. Brutal, lyrical, and deeply human, A Haunting Smile is both a ghost story and a moral reckoning for a nationand a speciesforever haunted by its appetite for power.

Heart Talk explores the emotional range of the Thai language through the word jaithe heart. In Thailand, the heart is more than a metaphor; it is the center of thought, mood, and connection. This updated digital edition presents over 900 jai-based expressions, organized by situation and nuance, revealing how Thai speakers convey compassion, anger, generosity, and joy. Each entry includes pronunciation and phonetic guides, illustrative examples, and a sign-language bonus for selected phrases. Drawing on decades of cross-cultural insight, Christopher G. Moore opens the private realm of Thai feelingthe linguistic heartscape where relationships are formed and emotions negotiated. For language learners, expats, translators, and anyone intrigued by how emotions shape speech, Heart Talk offers both a practical handbook and a window into Thailands cultural soul.

The Big Weird plunges Bangkoks most iconic farang detective deep into the neon-slashed heart of Nana Plaza, where the truth is never what it seems and every shadow hides a watcher. After decades navigating the alleys, bars, and backroom deals of Southeast Asia, Vincent Calvino has learned to trust two things: his instinctsand the strange, unsettling gut-feeling he calls the big weird, a shift in the air that signals chaos ahead.When a dancer at a Nana Plaza bar vanishes without explanation, the case feels like routine missing-persons work. But Calvino quickly discovers she isnt the only one gone. Other disappearancesexpats, hustlers, bar workersripple beneath Bangkoks glittering surface, dismissed by police as "transient noise." Yet the evidence points to something far darker threading through the compounds balconies and corridors.Drawn into the labyrinth of Nana Plazas nightly theaterits hustlers, owner proxies, shadow financiers, and digital voyeursCalvino follows a trail that leads from the crowded red-light bars to the high-rise safe rooms of men who believe they own the city. Each clue unravels another layer of deception. Each witness tells a story that contradicts the last. And each survivor warns him to walk away before he becomes part of the machinery swallowing people whole.But Calvino has never walked away from a case that smelled wrong.As Bangkoks rainy season floods the streets and tensions boil between the police, military, and crime syndicates, Calvino uncovers a covert operation hiding in plain sight. To expose it, he must navigate a city where everyone plays multiple roles, and where loyaltylike identityis just another commodity.Told with Christopher G. Moores signature psychological depth, street-level authenticity, and sharp noir lyricism, The Big Weird unspools a mystery that is as much about the shifting fault lines of modern Southeast Asia as it is about the human heart. Moores Bangkok is alive on the page: seductive, unforgiving, and electric with danger.A master of the genre, Moore brings a Dickensian eye to the lives that drift through the edges of the metropolis, illuminating the invisible, the exploited, and the unforgettable. Fans of Chandler, Hammett, Ellroy, and the classic noir tradition will recognize the lineagebut Moores voice is wholly his own, honed across three decades of groundbreaking Asia noir.The Big Weird is a haunting, propulsive thriller that reveals the psychological cost of living in a city where every truth is contested and every secret has a price.