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Missing in Thailand by Debra Bernard
 Living in Thailand where her ambitious husband works, she discovers the ultimate betrayal. She unearths blackmail, both financial and emotional, as she sees her husband torn apart by guilt and fear. Set in two continents, this is a dark, thought-provoking story which begs answers to the questions - how we may, or may not, cope with the shock of deceit and the ensuing emotional tidal-wave, whether we can really know the person closest to us and if we can ever overcome the watershed of personal loss and tragedy. And, do we ever know ourselves? |
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The Butterfly Trap by Dennis Jon
In hindsight, maybe fluttering off the tour guide's red line wasn't such a good idea. But Jon has neither hindsight nor foresight as his vacation unfolds in real time. Acting without consequence, he discovers that real life is funnier, crazier, and more interesting than fiction, as he encounters football hooligans, crooked tour guides, domino hustlers, root salesman, transvestite karaoke stars, restroom massage gangs, and angels - not with wings and halos, but g-strings and high heels. While pursuing his shallow desires, he finds that he himself is in danger of becoming a fictional character, as he struggles to define the line between fantasy and reality. Thinking the truth is too complicated, he spins a web of deception that ultimately unravels, and leads him head first into - The Butterfly Trap. |
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Pool and its Role in Asian Communisn by Colin Cotterill
A funny and moving tale set during the secret war in Laos The year is 1970. Waldo Monk is 65 years old, a widower, and two months away from retirement after a lifetime at Roundly's pool-ball factory in Mattfield, Indiana. Enter Saifon, a twenty-something Lao-American girl with an attitude, who has come to the US under mysterious circumstances. She's just arrived at Roundly's, and it's Waldo's task to train her up for his job as pool-ball quality controller. Saifon hates just about everyone, and even though Waldo is tempted to strangle her at first, a friendship soon grows between them. Two personal disasters in Waldo's life lead to him 'adopting' Saifon instead. But Saifon's mission at the factory is to make enough money, by hook or crook, to get back to Laos - for she has sworn to discover the truth about her past. |
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Held by Carey Furze
Held is a chilling tale of adventure and survival. Based on a true story Four young western women are abducted into sex slave prostitution in Asia. Kelly is from a small beach town in Australia. Young and adventurous she decides to backpack around Thailand alone. Laurie was dismissed from the American Military for unbecoming conduct. She travels to Thailand to rethink her future. Fiona is from a poor family in London. She is sent to Bangkok as a courier for a drug shipment to repay her debt. Karin is the spoilt youngest child of a wealthy Swedish industrialists. She travels to Bangkok for a relaxing vacation. This story follows four girls and their vastly different reactions to being held together, as sex slaves and how they attempt to escape and get away. |
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Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett
In District 8, the underbelly of Bangkok's crime world, a dramatically mutilated body is found in a hotel bedroom. It looks bad. It gets worse for detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep when the self-confessed murderer is the most successful 'working girl' at The Old Man's Club, a brothel owned jointly by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. And it gets deadly when Sonchai, in an effort to get at the bizarre truth, is forced to run the gamut of Bangkok's drug-dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, corrupt military generals, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart.. Crowded with astonishing characters, redolent of the authentic, hallucinogenic atmosphere of Bangkok, with needle-sharp observations about the clash of cultures when East meets West, Bangkok Tattoo is a literary thriller like no other. |
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The Third Attempt by Nathan Mills
The Third Attempt by Nathan Mills East meets West, and the meeting won't be pretty. An intense, humorous international crime thriller, The Third Attempt races halfway around the globe from Washington D.C. to Tokyo, Phnom Penh to Phuket, Thailand, and through the streets of Kuala Lumpur. U.S. trade diplomat Bill Carmichael is a model for American family values: He's a loving husband and doting father. He also wants a powerful figure dead. And there are plenty of men who will back him, including the target's own father. There's one catch: Carmichael must ensure that the contract killer never escapes Malaysia after the job's completion. |
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Murder in China Red by Dean Barrett
"Edge-of-the-seat suspense" - Sujata Massey His name is Liu Chiang-hsin; "a mind as sharp as a sword". But "Chinaman" is the name his friends and contacts use. Chinaman grew up in Beijing during the Mao era and was traumatized by seeing Red Guards beat his scholar-father and drag him off; never to return. Three decades later, the one woman who managed to penetrate his emotional defenses has been murdered in the New York Palace Hotel. And Chinaman won't rest until he finds the killer. "I was riveted by Dean Barrett's portrayal of the tensions, and excitement, of the East-West interchange. Beautiful writing, and edge-of-the-seat suspense kept me anxious to the finish." Sujata Massey, author of The Brides Kimono |
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Kingdom of Make-Believe by Dean Barrett
A Novel by Dean Barrett A New York publisher who once served in Thailand during the Vietnam War receives a plea for help from his late brother's Thai widow. When he returns to Thailand after 20 years he finds that the nostalgic portrait he carried of Thailand Past bears little resemblance to reality, and he begins to uncover deception, danger and death. Scenes in the novel range from Manhattan's Greenwich Village to a typhoon-ravaged Hong Kong to Thailand's notorious nightlife and warlord betrayals in the inside the Golden Triangle. A gripping mystery and exotic thriller, it is also the story of a man coming to terms with reality and himself. |
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The Tunnel Rats by Stephen Leather
Author of Private Dancer Two murders, thousands of miles apart: one in London, one in Bangkok. The bodies brutally mutilated: an ace of spades impaled upon their chests. In Washington, a US senator receives photographs of the corpses. And realises that his past has come back to haunt him. Nick Wright is the detective trying to solve the mystery of the double killing. His hunt for a motive takes him to the tunnels in Vietnam, where the American tunnel rats fought the dirtiest battle of the war against the Viet Cong. But his search places him in grave danger with a killer determined to protect the secrets of the tunnels. At whatever cost... |
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The Pole Dancer by R.D. Lawrence
A Bangkok Thriller Just as thousands of other impoverished country girls in the Land of Smiles were doing, Joy eked out a living the only way she knew how. Trapped within the suffocating world of Bangkok nightlife, even Joy's sharp wits and exceptional beauty were unlikely to offer a way out. But then, out of the blue, she found her prayers were being answered - prophesies from a wizened old clairvoyant, that at first she had hardly dared believe to be anything more than a fantasy of hope, began to materialize. And so she found herself attracted to Simon - handsome, charming, well-heeled, if a little mysterious - the kind of man most girls could only ever dream of meeting. He was perfect, and with barely a second thought she gave her heart. But Simon was not quite what he appeared to be, and by the time she realized her mistake, it was too late... |
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20777 links in 841 categories and 3 comments by 103 members. Directory last updated 11/26/08.
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