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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Fiction Books | | | Author: | John Burdett | | Format: | Hardcover | | | Publisher: | Alfred a Knopf Inc | | Category: | Mystery, Thriller | | | ISBN-10: | 1400040450 | | Sub-Category: | Detective | | | ISBN-13: | 9781400040452 | | Condition: | Used | | | Publication Year: | 2005 | | | | | | Special Attributes: | 1st Edition | | | | | | |
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This is a paperback uncorrected proof of Bangkok Tattoo written by John Burdett. First American edition copy with same cover art as hardcover. Book is in very good used condition with minor wear. ISBN 1-4000-4045-0.
Book Description:
In Burdett's brilliantly cynical mystery thriller, the follow-up to Bangkok 8 (2004), Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called in by his supervisor, hard-bitten Captain Vikorn, to investigate the murder of a CIA operative, Mitch Turner, found disemboweled and mutilated. The prime suspect is a beautiful bar girl, Chanya, with whom Sonchai believes himself to be in love. When Turner's murder turns out to be far more complicated than originally thought, Sonchai must deal with his boss's rages and Chanya's gradually revealed secrets, along with CIA agents who have come to investigate the crime, a Thai army general with whom Vikorn has been feuding for years, Yakuza gangsters, Japanese tattooists, Muslim fundamentalists and more. Thoroughly familiar with Thailand, Burdett does an impressive job of depicting an often romanticized society from the inside out. His characters are unforgettable, his dialogue fast-paced and perfectly pitched, his numerous asides and observations generally as cutting as they are funny.
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| Synopsis | Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a profoundly spiritual Bangkok police detective maintaining his unique sense of integrity within a corrupt system, returns in this violently farcical, twisty sequel to the bestselling and equally outrageous BANGKOK 8. Moonlighting at his mother Nong's bar/brothel, Sonchai has fallen not-so-secretly in love with the establishment's star performer, Chanya. That makes it particularly awkward when a blood-soaked but unharmed Chanya is discovered next to the disemboweled, flayed, and castrated corpse of her latest client, an American CIA agent. Sonchai is left with the unenviable task of figuring out why the American was killed while simultaneously covering up the crime to avoid CIA involvement in the investigation.
| | Size | | Length: | 391 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in. | | Width: | 6.8 in. | | Thickness: | 1.2 in. | | Weight: | 22.4 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, 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 who’s the highest earner at The Old Man’s Club, jointly owned by Sonchai’s mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn.
Alerted by Sonchai, 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 an 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 pitfalls of his own melting heart (Chanya!)—most of which he can handle. But even Sonchai is not prepared for what he discovers at the end of his investigation.
Piercingly smart and funny, densely atmospheric, and—as we already know to expect from John Burdett—packing a surprise at every turn, Bangkok Tattoo is sensational.
| | Industry reviews | "Another wacky, wild-side traipse through Thailand's fleshpots, eateries and spiritual havens....[A] wry, wise and wonderful romp."
Kirkus (04/01/2005)
"[B]rilliantly cynical....[Burdett's] characters are unforgettable, his dialogue fast-paced and perfectly pitched, his numerous asides and observations generally as cutting as they are funny." (starred review)
Publishers Weekly (04/25/2005)
"[O]utrageous yet bizarrely tender."
Booklist (05/01/2005)
"The atmosphere in BANGKOK TATTOO is no less humidly and richly imagined...than in BANGKOK 8."
New York Times Book Review - Charles Taylor (06/05/2005)
"John Burdett's giddy, wicked, hilarious crime novels are not for the oversensitive American....[W]e, the devoted admirers of Sonchai, say...Lighten up, farang. The chance to view Westerners through skeptical Asian eyes (sort of; after all, Burdett is a Brit living in Hong Kong) is one of the things that make the Bangkok 8 novels so delicious."
Salon - Laura Miller (06/06/2005)
"The plot showcases Burdett's sly riffs on Third World stereotypes, Buddhism, and the gustatory pleasures of fried grasshoppers. It's a giddy, occasionally over-the-top performance, but mesmerizing: a comic tour of the underbelly of Bangkok in pursuit of both a murderer and the sublime."
New Yorker
"Compulsive, shockingly readable thriller which refuses to moralise and refutes the standard Western notion of Thailand as a nation in which 'working girls are the down-trodden slaves of a chauvinistic, male-dominated culture.'...Original, exciting, poetic and somehow salutary."
Literary Review - Philip Oakes (08/01/2005)
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