5/7/2023 0 Comments Bangkok 8 by john burdett![]() ![]() His talent as a writer lets readers feel like they have actually have been to Bangkok, or like they are actually in Bangkok while they read the book. ![]() The story takes place in Bangkok, and Burdett's description of the area is more than cosmetic. 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. John Burdett's latest novel, Bangkok 8 is a hardboiled thriller. And where Sonchai tracks the killer-and a predator of an even more sinister variety. ![]() 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. Two policemen - the only two in the city not on the take - arrive too late. ![]() and a Thai bar girl whose subsequent international clientele contributed richly to Sonchai’s sophistication. 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. 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. Two cops-the only two in the city not on the take-arrive too late. 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. Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edged-a thriller unlike any other. ![]()
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