Bangkok Tattoo

John Burdett's extraordinary head-spinning new novel featuring Sonchai Jitpleecheep, Thai Buddhist detective extraordinaire

Informationen zum Autor John Burdett Klappentext Bangkok! rich in history and spirituality! crowded with temples! markets and canals! is also a city shrouded in shadows. Polluted! corrupt! infamous as the sex capital of the world! it is a place where wealth! poverty and unimaginable evil walk hand in hand. Crowded with astonishing characters! redolent with the authentic! hallucinogenic atmosphere of Bangkok! with needle-sharp observations about the clash of cultures when East meets West! this is a literary thriller like no other. Zusammenfassung Bangkok, rich in history and spirituality, crowded with temples, markets and canals, is also a city shrouded in shadows. In District 8, the underbelly of Bangkok's crime world, a dramatically mutilated body is found in a hotel bedroom. It looks bad: the corpse - who's been flayed - is CIA.

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John Burdett

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Bangkok, rich in history and spirituality, crowded with temples, markets and canals, is also a city shrouded in shadows. Polluted, corrupt, infamous as the sex capital of the world, it is a place where wealth, poverty and unimaginable evil walk hand in hand. Crowded with astonishing characters, redolent with the authentic, hallucinogenic atmosphere of Bangkok, with needle-sharp observations about the clash of cultures when East meets West, this is a literary thriller like no other.