The Bangkok Asset: A Royal Thai Detective Novel

Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called to investigate a crime scene in Bangkok--which quickly reveals itself to be anything but typical in this "intelligent, high-octane psychological thriller (New York Journal of Books).

For one thing, the victim has been beheaded in a bizarre manner, and for another, a message was left in blood. Then Sonchai is summoned to a river in the middle of the night to observe a spectacle that violates everything he holds dear as a Thai, as a Buddhist, and as a human being.

A trail of breadcrumbs has been carefully laid out for him, but by whom? Sonchai's search for answers takes him deep into the Cambodian jungle, where he faces a conspiracy that may implicate the American CIA and the Chinese military--and discovers exactly how far a government will go to protect its worst secrets.

Author: John Burdett
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 07/12/2016
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780307474308
ISBN10: 0307474305
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Hard-Boiled
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Police Procedural
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | International Crime & Mystery

About the Author
John Burdett was brought up in North London and worked as a lawyer in Hong Kong. He is the author of eight novels, including the Royal Thai Detective series: Bangkok 8, Bangkok Tattoo, Bangkok Haunts, The Godfather of Kathmandu, Vulture Peak, and The Bangkok Asset.

www.john-burdett.com