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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. New York: Soho, August 2016. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. N ear Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Red remainder dot to bottom edge. Inte rior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket has sc ratches to rear panel, otherwise clean and bright. Not from a library. Not clipped. 242 pages. Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have n ever been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they share their small V ientiane house with an assortment of homeless people, mendicants, and oddba lls. One of these oddballs is Noo, a Buddhist monk, who rides out on his bi cycle one day and never comes back, leaving only a cryptic note in the refr igerator: a plea to help a fellow monk escape across the Mekhong River to T hailand. Naturally, Siri can't turn down the adventure, and soon he and his friends find themselves running afoul of Lao secret service officers and f amous spiritualists. Buddhism is a powerful influence on both morals and po litics in Southeast Asia. In order to exonerate an innocent man, they will have to figure out who is cloaking terrible misdeeds in religiosity. Three women are murdered in three separate locations over one night in 1979. The acerbic Siri and his redoubtable wife, Madam Daeng, who have plenty of experience with the supernatural, attend--and disrupt--a Communist Party seminar condemning spirit worship as part of the regime's efforts to resolve conflicts between Communism and such faiths as Buddhism and animism. Meanwhile, Noo, a Thai monk whom the doctor has given refuge from the Thai military, vanishes, leaving a note asking Siri to smuggle a f.