John Burdett, Author . Knopf $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4044-5
Part mystery, part thriller and part exploration of Thai attitudes toward sex, this accomplished first novel by Burdett (A Personal History of Thirst; The Last Six Million Seconds) delivers both entertainment and depth. The narrator, a Buddhist cop...
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John Burdett, Author . Knopf $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4045-2
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,...
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John Burdett, Author . Knopf $24.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-307-26318-6
At the start of Burdett's superb third mystery-thriller to feature Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after Bangkok 8
and Bangkok Tattoo
), Jitpleecheep shows old friend Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent, a vicious snuff film he
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John Burdett, Author . Knopf $25.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-307-26319-3
The vivid portrait of 21st-century Thailand in part redeems the meandering plot of Burdett's fourth thriller to feature corrupt Bangkok police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after Bangkok Haunts
). Jitpleecheep, a marijuana-smoking Buddhist...
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John Burdett, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-688-14774-7
Six million seconds are, in Burdett's second novel (after A Personal History of Thirst, 1995), all the time left until Hong Kong is subsumed by the People's Republic of China. Burdett means his book to be a scary cautionary tale as well as an...
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John Burdett, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-14399-2
Former lawyer Burdett's first novel cleverly exploits a love triangle to highlight the mordant ironies of the British class system. Couched in terms of psychological intrigue, this three-part thriller uncovers deception involving ambitious James...
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John Burdett. Knopf, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-27267-6
Burdett’s fifth Bangkok novel (after 2010’s The Godfather of Kathmandu) opens with a memorable tableau—three corpses, laid neatly on a bed in a Phuket mansion and missing all commercially viable body parts, including their faces. It’s clearly a case
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John Burdett. Knopf, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-27268-3
An unusual crime scene disturbs Sonchai Jitpleecheep in Burdett’s wild and entertaining sixth novel featuring the Thai homicide detective (after 2012’s Vulture Peak). Near the corpse of a 12- or 13-year-old girl, whose head seems to have been pulled
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John Burdett, Author, B. D. Wong, Read by , read by B.D. Wong. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-0387-0
Set in Thailand's capital in the mid-1990s, this ambitious first novel by Burdett (The Last Six Million Seconds) follows the city's only honest police detective, Sonchai Jitplecheep, as he searches for the person responsible for the deaths...
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