A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world s most exotic cities.
Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante mission to capture his...

Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller.A farang a foreigner has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchai s mother and his boss. The dead man was a CIA agent. To make matters worse, the apparent culprit is sweet-natured Chanya, the brothel s top earner and a woman whom the devoutly Buddhist sleuth has loved for several lifetimes. How can Sonchai solve this crime without sending Chanya to prison? How can he engage in a cover-up without endangering his karma? And how will...

Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel.
Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the snuff film he's just been sent anonymously. Furiously fast-paced and laced through with an erotic ghost story that gives a new dark twist to the life of our hero, Bangkok Haunts more than lives up to the smart and darkly funny originality of its predecessors.

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...

Eine atemlose Verbrecherjagd durch die düstere Halbwelt Bangkoks.

Im brodelnden Bangkok jagt der buddhistische Polizist Sonchai die Mörder von William Bradley, einem skrupellosen amerikanischen Jadehändler. Die Suche gerät zu einer Reise in die eigene Vergangenheit, in die Unterwelt Bangkoks, in die Bordelle des berüchtigten achten Bezirks bis hinein in die Vorzimmer der amerikanischen Botschaft.

"Tote Kunden sind einfach nicht gut fürs Geschäft."

Die Prostituierte Chanya ist überzeugt, einen Mord begangen zu haben. In ihrem Bett: ein toter Amerikaner, grausam zugerichtet, Mitarbeiter der CIA. Doch Sonchai Jitpleecheep glaubt nicht daran, dass Chanya mit dem Mord etwas zu tun hat. Ein Schuldiger muss her. Da trifft es sich bestens, dass die CIA nur zu gern an einen Terrorakt glaubt.