JOHN BURDETT

Sonchai Jitpleecheepthe devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattooreturns in this blistering new novel. Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkoks District 8, but nothing like the video hes just been sent anonymously: Few crimes make us fear for the evolution of our species. I am watching one right now. Hes watching a snuff film. And the person dying before his disbelieving eyes is Damronga 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 (Dont 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 mens 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 . . . Ferociously smart and funny, furiously fast-paced, and laced through with an erotic ghost story that gives a new dark twist to the life of our hero, Bangkok Haunts does exactly that from first page to last.

From the author of the bestselling, Bangkok Eight, John Burdett, an exotic, intoxicating new novel featuring Sonchai Jitpleecheep, Thai Buddhist detective extraodinaire.Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkoks crime-riddled District 8. But the video hes been sent anonymously is something else: its a snuff movie, and the person who dies is Damrong, the beautiful woman he once loved and whom he still dreams about. And theres more: slayings turn the ensuing investigation into a murder inquiry, and Sonchai into an obsessed and haunted man. Sonchais inquiries follow a dizzying route from his own apartment, where he sleeps next to his pregnant wife while his fantasies deliver him up to Damrong; through the office of his corrupt and worldly wise boss, Captain Vikorn; to the backstreets of Phnom Penh, where street gangs are only the most visible threats; to the gilded rooms of the most exclusive mens club in Bangkok, whose members will do anything to protect their identities while exploring their darkest fantasies. Caught in a multi-dimensional web of intrigue and deception, Sonchai confronts the terrifying consequences of a lesson he should have learned long ago. In Bangkok nothing is as it seems...

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From the author of the bestselling Bangkok Eight, John Burdett, an exotic, intoxicating new novel featuring Sonchai Jitpleecheep, Thai Buddhist detective extraordinaire.Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is summoned to investigate the most shocking murder of his career. Solving it could mean a promotion but, still reeling from a personal tragedy, Sonchai is more interested in an exiled Tibetan lama living in Kathmandu.But there are obstacles in Sonchais path to enlightenment. Police Colonel Vikorn and Army General Zinna are at war again for control over Bangkoks network of illegal enterprises - and the Tibetan lama has forty million dollars worth of heroin for sale.With his life in increasing danger, Sonchai is put to the extreme test in John Burdetts most inventive, darkly comic and wickedly entertaining novel yet.

Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is summoned to investigate the most shocking murder of his career. Solving it could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, still reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama living in Kathmandu.

El Bangkok surreal, la ciudad de los templos y de los burdeles, donde los monjes budistas con sus ropajes de color azafrán pisan el mismo suelo que los gánsters más violentos, donde los cuerpos y las almas estan a la venta o en alquiler, y el lugar donde tu manera de morir puede ser mas importante que tu manera de vivir, es el escenario insustituible de esta novela.

Killing customers just isnt good for business In District 8, the underbelly of Bangkoks crime world, a dramatically mutilated body is found in a hotel bedroom. It looks bad. It gets worse for Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep when the self-confessed murderer is Chanya, the most successful working girl at The Old Mans Club, a brothel owned jointly by Sonchais mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. And it gets deadly when Sonchai, in an effort to get at the bizarre truth, is forced to run the gamut of Bangkoks drug-dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, even worse military generals, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart. Like no other novel thats come my way lately. Ironic, sexy and trailing an odour that reminds me of a Bangkok street after hoursExpect to be enlightened Literary Review Open Bangkok Tattoo and you will read on and on, with wide-eyed fascination, some horror or disgust, and considerable delight Washington Post

Retomando al detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, protagonista de Bangkok 8, John Burdett vuelve a transportarnos a los bajos fondos de la urbe tailandesa. Se ha encontrado un cadáver mutilado que pertenece a un ex miembro de la CIA. La principal sospechosa es Chanya, una joven que trabaja en el club de alterne de la madre de Sonchai. Pronto las cosas se complicaran y se descubrira una trama que implica a la CIA y la investigacion que la Agencia realiza en la frontera tailandesa sobre el terrorismo de Al-Qaeda.

En el Bangkok surreal, la ciudad de los templos y de los burdeles, donde los monjes budistas pisan el mismo suelo que los gánsters más violentos y donde la forma de morir es más importante que la de vivir, aparece el cuerpo de un marine norteamericano que ha sido asesinado mediante la mordedura de cobras y pitones. Tras recibir el aviso en comisaria, dos policias se desplazan al lugar de los hechos y minutos mas tarde solo uno sigue vivo. Para investigar la muerte de su compañero, Sonchai recorrera las calles de la ciudad con dos armas fundamentales: sus conocimientos en ciencia forense y su entendimiento de la mistica en la que se mueve el mundo de los espiritus.

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact-more or less-despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok. But for his newest assignment, everything he knows about his city-and himself-will be a mere starting point.Hes put in charge of the highest-profile criminal case in Thailand-an attempt to bring an end to trafficking in human organs. He sets in motion a massive sting operation and stays at its center, traveling to Phuket, Hong Kong, Dubai, Shanghai, and Monte Carlo. He draws in a host of unwitting players that includes an aging rock star wearing out his second liver and the mysterious, diabolical, albeit gorgeous co-queenpins of the international body-parts trade: the Chinese twins known as the Vultures. And yet, its closer to home that Sonchai will discover things getting really dicey: rumors will reach him suggesting that his ex-prostitute wife, Chanya, is having an affair. Will Sonchai be enlightened enough-forget Buddha, think jealous husband-to cope with his very own compromised and compromising world? All will be revealed here, in John Burdetts most mordantly funny, propulsive, fiendishly entertaining novel yet.Praise for John Burdett and his Bangkok novels:Cracking East meets West thriller introducing a half-Thai, half-American cop whose Buddhist beliefs are as important as his forensic skills. TerrificObserver.A fantastic new thriller with an avenging Buddhist cop as its central characterMail on Sunday.Read this book, savour the language - its the last and most compelling word in thrillers James Ellroy.Impeccably researched, this is sometimes poetic, often exotic, and totally hardcoreDaily Mirror."Burdetts fever-dream mysteries, set in Bangkok, recast the police procedural as psychedelic peep show."The New Yorker."Burdett is purely and simply a wonderful writer."The Washington Post Book World.

In his latest case, Sonchai is paired with young, female inspector Krom. Like him, shes an outsider on the police force, but she is socially savyy and a technological prodigy. In the midst of a typhoon they witness a deadly demonstration of super-human strength from a man who is seemingly controlled by a CIA operative. Could the Americans really have figured out a way to create some sort of super-soldier who is both physically and psychologically enhanced? Are they testing it, or him, on Thai soil? And why is everyone, from the Bangkok police to the international community, so eager to turn a blind eye? The case will take Sonchai to a hidden Cambodian jungle compound for aging American vets where he will discover exactly how far a government will go to protect its very worst secrets - both past and present. It is also a case that will shake Sonchais world to its very foundation and may finally force him to confront his lost father.

In surreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, a US marine sergeant is killed inside a locked Mercedes by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Two policemen - the only two in the city not on the take - arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive.The cop left standing, Sonchai Jitpleecheep, is a devout Buddhist and swears to avenge the death of his partner and soul brother. To do so he must use the forensic techniques of the modern policing and his own profound understanding of the mystical workings of the spirit world.Both will be vital as he immerses himself in the moneyed underbelly of Bangkok - where desire rules and where he will eventually find the killer, a predator of an even more sinister variety...

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intactmore or lessdespite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok. But for his newest assignment, everything he knows about his cityand himselfwill be a mere starting point. Hes put in charge of the highest-profile criminal case in Thailandan attempt to bring an end to trafficking in human organs. He sets in motion a massive sting operation and stays at its center, traveling to Phuket, Hong Kong, Dubai, Shanghai, and Monte Carlo. He draws in a host of unwitting players that includes an aging rock star wearing out his second liver and the mysterious, diabolical, albeit gorgeous co-queenpins of the international body-parts trade: the Chinese twins known as the Vultures. And yet, its closer to home that Sonchai will discover things getting really dicey: rumors will reach him suggesting that his ex-prostitute wife, Chanya, is having an affair. Will Sonchai be enlightened enoughforget Buddha, think jealous husbandto cope with his very own compromised and compromising world? All will be revealed here, in John Burdetts most mordantly funny, propulsive, fiendishly entertaining novel yet.

It is April 1997, and all of Hong Kong is counting down to July 1, when Britain will hand over rule of the country to China. Public anxiety about the transfer of power is running high, but Charlie Chan Siu-kais biggest concern is a gruesome triple murder case, with no solid leads. Chan, a half-Chinese, half-Irish Hong Kong native and chief inspector with the Royal Hong Kong police, thinks hes found a breakthrough when three mutilated heads are found floating in Chinese waters. But he grows increasingly frustrated as the Chinese police actively hinderand the English bureaucrats pointedly ignorehis investigation. As Chan tracks the killers, he discovers cover-ups and conspiracies running deeper than even he had imagined. All the while, in the background, the clock ticks down to the day the British leave . . .

From former British barrister John Burdett comes a psychosexual novel in the tradition of Damage and Presumed Innocent. At the heart of A Personal History of Thirst is an ill-fated love triangle where all hunger for something and are willing to risk everything to get it, blurring th eboundaries between right and wrong and love and hate to do so. Thirst tells a gripping tale of murder,r evenge, infidelity, ambition, and deception that keeps shocking until the stunning courtroom climax. Ambitious London lawyer James Knight, a propserous solciitor, has denied his lower-class background and carefully molded his publci image in order to climb the social and professional ladder of the British legal system. He will soon "take silk"become a Queens counsel barrister, the highest rank a alwyer can obtain.More than decade earlier, however, James had lived on the fringe of acceptable society and rigid British ethics during his years at university, experimenting with sex and drugs in a passionate love affair with a stunning and brilliant American named Daisy Smith.Jamess life takes an unexpected turn early in his career when he meets a clientan accused thief named Oliver Thirstfor a drink and a chat in a pub. Although they could not be more different, James is drawn to Thirsts high intelligence and wit. Soon their illicit friendship develops into a dark and erotic menage a trois with Daisy at the center.Now, eleven years later, one is dead and two are suspected of murder. The murder investigation at the center of this impossible-to-put-down novel uncovers the bizarre love story between the barrister, the American, and the thief. And, in the end, A Personal History of Thirst answers the question: What happens when genuine love becomes mixed with perverse obsession?