An edition of Bangkok 8: A Novel (2003)

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An edition of Bangkok 8: A Novel (2003)

Bangkok 8

  • 3.00 ·
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  • 7 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edged--a thriller unlike any other.Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snake--a charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras.Two cops--the only two in the city not on the take--arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive: Sonchai Jitpleecheep--a devout Buddhist, equally versed in the sacred and the profane--son of a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. and a Thai bar girl whose subsequent international clientele contributed richly to Sonchai's sophistication.Now, his partner dead, Sonchai is doubly compelled to find the murderer, to maneuver through the world he knows all to well--illicit drugs, prostitution, infinite corruption--and 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 killer--and a predator of an even more sinister variety.Thick with the authentic--and hallucinogenic--atmosphere of Bangkok, crowded with astonishing characters, uniquely smart and skeptical, literary and wildly readable, Bangkok 8 is one of a kind.From the Hardcover edition.

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Cover of: Bangkok 8
Bangkok 8
2005, RB Large Print
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Cover of: Bangkok 8
Bangkok 8: A Novel
July 13, 2004, Vintage
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Cover of: Bangkok 8
Bangkok 8
2003, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Bangkok 8
2003, Alfred A. Knopf
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OL24256927M
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9781400040919
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427327868
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The African American marine in the gray Mercedes will soon die of bites from Naja siamensis, but we don't know that yet, Pichai and I (the future is impenetrable, says the Buddha).
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July 29, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format 'electronic resource' to 'Electronic resource'
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