Book description
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...
John Burdett is a former lawyer who worked in Hong Kong until he
found his true vocation as a writer. An Englishman by birth, he has
lived in France and Spain, and is now back in the Far East. He is the
author of
A Personal History of Thirst
and
Six Million Seconds
.
Bangkok Tattoo
, the sequel to
Bangkok Eight
, is also published by Corgi.
