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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.
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. And it gets worse when the self-confessed murderer is the beautiful Chanya - the best 'working girl' at The Old Man's Club, a brothel owned jointly by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves an Al-Qaeda terrorist cell located in a southern Thai border-town where, since 9/11, the CIA has also had a covert presence.
So far so good: but the truth will be harder to come by, and it will require Sonchai to find an ever more delicate balance between his ambition (western) and his Buddhism (eastern), while he runs the gamut of Bangkok's drug-dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, even worse military generals, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart.
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.
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"An original, imaginative thriller. . . . Burdett writes like a dark angel." -"Chicago Tribune" "You will read on and on, with wide-eyed fascination, some horror. . . and considerable delight. . . . If you're looking for a good time, look no further." -"The Washington Post Book World" "Mesmerizing: a comic tour of the underbelly of Bangkok in pursuit of both a murderer and the sublime."-"The New Yorker"
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John Burdett's extraordinary head-spinning new novel featuring Sonchai Jitpleecheep, Thai Buddhist detective extraordinaire
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- PublisherPRESSES CITE
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 2258070600
- ISBN 13 9782258070608
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages357
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Paperback. Condition: NEUF. Fils d'une prostituée thaïe et d'un GI américain qu'il n'a jamais connu, Sonchaï Jitpleecheep est inspecteur du 8e District, le quartier chaud de Bangkok. Bouddhiste pratiquant, mais guidé par une morale bien à lui, ce flic hors normes connaît la capitale thaïlandaise comme sa poche. Dans un hôtel du 8e District, on découvre le corps atrocement mutilé d'un agent de la CIA. Tout porte à croire que le meurtre a été commis par Chanya, la prostituée vedette du club dont sont propriétaires la mère de Sonchaï et son supérieur, le colonel Vikorn. Alerté par Sonchaï, Vikorn met aussitôt au point un scénario impliquant Al Qaida et les musulmans du sud de la Thaïlande, où la CIA maintient une présence occulte depuis le 11 Septembre. Mais la vérité est tout autre. Après Bangkok 8, salué comme une révélation par James Ellroy, John Burdett signe un nouveau thriller jubilatoire, à l'ironie cinglante. Une formidable plongée dans les bas-fonds de Bangkok, au ton très politiquement incorrect ! - Nombre de page(s) : 1 vol. (357 p.) - Poids : 0g - Langue : fre - Genre : Policier / Thriller grand format Sang d'encre. Seller Inventory # N9782258070608
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