![]() Caught in a multi-dimensional web of intrigue and deception, Sonchai confronts the terrifying consequences of a lesson he should have learned long ago. His investigation forms a dizzying route from his own apartment - where he sleeps next to his pregnant wife while his fantasies deliver him up to Damrong through the office of his corrupt and worldly wise boss, Captain Vikorn to the backstreets of Phnom Penh where street gangs are only the most visible threats to the gilded rooms of the most exclusive men's club in Bangkok, whose members will do anything to protect their identity, and to explore their own darkest fantasies. Bangkok 8: A Royal Thai Detective Novel (1) John Burdett 520 Paperback 163 offers from 1.46 Bangkok Tattoo: A Royal Thai Detective Novel (2) John Burdett 300 Paperback 124 offers from 1.46 A Personal History of Thirst John Burdett 38 Hardcover 28 offers from 5. And there's more: a twist at the end that turns the film into murder, and Sonchai into a man obsessed and - it becomes increasingly clear - literally haunted. ![]() What he watches is a snuff film, and the person he sees die is Damrong, a woman he once loved and whom he still dreams about. ![]() But the video he's sent anonymously is something else. Of all the paths to becoming a lawyer, John Burdett chose what has to be one of the least-traveled. ![]() ![]() Sonchai has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkok's crime-riddled District 8. Before publishing the bestseller Bangkok 8 and five more books in the series, author John Burdett lived a life of novel-worthy plot twists among the downtrodden and the marginalized, the criminal underclass and the upper crust. ![]()
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