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020			_a9781400032907
082	0		_aMYS BUR
100	1		_aBurdett, John
245	1	0	_aBangkok 8 _c/ John Burdett
250			_aFirst Vintage Books edition
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Books _c, 2004, c2003.
300			_a317 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aElectrifying, darkly comic, razor-edged, a thriller unlike any other. Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snake a charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras. Two cops the only two in the city not on the take arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive: Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a devout Buddhist, equally versed in the sacred and the profane son of a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. and a Thai bar girl whose subsequent international clientele contributed richly to Sonchai's sophistication. Now, his partner dead, Sonchai is doubly compelled to find the murderer, to maneuver through the world he knows all to well illicit drugs, prostitution, infinite corruption and into a realm he has never before encountered: the moneyed underbelly of the city, where desire rules and the human body is no less custom-designable than a raw hunk of jade. And where Sonchai tracks the killer and a predator of an even more sinister variety. Thick with the authentic and hallucinogenic atmosphere of Bangkok, crowded with astonishing characters, uniquely smart and skeptical, literary and wildly readable, Bangkok 8 is one of a kind.
650			_aPolice _z-Thailand _z-Bangkok _v--Fiction
651		4	_aBangkok (Thailand) _x--Fiction
942			_cMO
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