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Bangkok tattoo, John Burdett

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Bangkok tattoo, John Burdett

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eng

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fiction

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Bangkok tattoo

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John Burdett

Summary

Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller.A farangâ a foreignerâ has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchaiâ s mother and his boss. The dead man was a CIA agent. To make matters worse, the apparent culprit is sweet-natured Chanya, the brothelâ 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 he ever get to the bottom of a case whose interested parties include American spooks, Muslim fundamentalists, and gangsters from three countries?

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