Bangkok - the Year of the Monkey. Vincent Calvino is spending the New Year on a call-out to Lumpini Park Lake, where the Thai cops have fished out the body of a farang cameraman. Calvino traces the American's murder to an elite unit of old Asia hands - a set of foreigners with bad reputations and powerful friends.
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Bangkok - the Year of the Monkey. Vincent Calvino is spending the New Year on a call-out to Lumpini Park Lake, where the Thai cops have fished out the body of a farang cameraman. Calvino traces the American's murder to an elite unit of old Asia hands - a set of foreigners with bad reputations and powerful friends.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Vincent Calvino, 4. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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New. London: Atlantic Books, 2010. Paperback. First printing of the first UK edi tion of the second Vincent Calvino crime novel. Full number line. Winner of the 2011 Shamus award. New. Not damaged. No remainder mark. 266 pages. In the second novel in the Vincent Calvino series, Bangkok is celebrating Chinese New Year when Calvino's revels are cut short. The body of an American, an acquaintance of Calvino's, has been fished out of the lake in Lumpini Park. Around his neck are a string of wooden amulets, the kind upcountry Thais wear to protect themselves from evil spirits. Only rather than saving Hutton, these have killed him. A freelance cameraman scraping by on the margins, Hutton had photographed something shortly before his death that he thought would make his career. Now the footage-a shocking execution on the Thai/Burmese border-is running repeatedly on CNN, and the rights to Hutton's life story have been sold to a Hollywood producer. But who killed Hutton and why? When Calvino investigates, he collides with a powerful filmmaker and an experienced old Asia hand who knows the terrain as well as our man in Bangkok. It's all Calvino can do to stay alive, and find out who killed his fellow American.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Vincent Calvino, 4. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
Christopher G. Moore does an accurate and excellent job of showing Bangkok's daily world and underworld. As a thriller novel, its well crafted and takes unexpected twists. My only issues with the book - more than expected typographical errors and oddly constructed sentences really hamper the flow of the story. Several times I had to read sentences 3 and 4 times over, and ask myself "what does that even mean?" A sort of literary speed bump.
This was a first time read for me of Christopher G, Moore. I'm hooked.
