Synopses & Reviews
From the author of
Bangkok 8 ("The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum" James Ellroy), a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective, Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
We return to District 8 the underbelly of Bangkok's underworld where a dramatically mutilated dead body is found. It's bad: he was CIA. It gets worse: the murderer appears to be Chanya a tough/sweet working girl, one of the best at The Old Man's Club, jointly owned by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves Al Qaeda and Thailand's porous southern border, where, since 9/11, the CIA has been an obviously covert presence. But the truth will be harder to come by, and it will require Sonchai to find at ever-more-delicate balance between his ambition and his Buddhism while running the gamut of Bangkok's drug dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, worse military, and the pit-falls of his own melting heart (Chanya!) most of which he can handle. But even Sonchai is not prepared for what he discovers in the minds and in the homes of a certain group of men at the end of his investigation.
Piercingly smart and funny, densely atmospheric, and as we already know to expert from John Burdett with a surprise at every turn, Bangkok Tatto is sensational.
Review
"[Burdett] made that world so vivid and fascinating in Bangkok 8 that a sequel seemed risky could he do it again, and create another plot as astounding as the one that drove the first book? He could, and in Bangkok Tattoo he has." St. Petersburg Times
Review
"[An] outrageous yet bizarrely tender follow-up to Bangkok 8." Booklist
Synopsis
From the author of Bangkok 8 comes a head-spinning new novel that puts readers back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective, Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
About the Author
John Burdett is a nonpracticing lawyer who worked in Hong Kong for a British firm until he found his true vocation as a writer. Since then, he has lived in France and Spain and is now back in Hong Kong.