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008			102705s2007 nyu b 000 1 eng
010			_a2007061472
020			_a9780307263186
082	0	0	_aMYS BUR
100	1		_aBurdett, John
245	1	0	_aBangkok haunts _c/ John Burdett
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2007.
300			_a305 p. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aSonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering new novel. Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the video he's just been sent anonymously: Few crimes make us fear for the evolution of our species. I am watching one right now. He's watching a snuff film. And the person dying before his disbelieving eyes is Damrong, a woman he once loved obsessively and, now it becomes clear, endlessly. And there is something more: something at the end of the film that leaves Sonchai both figuratively and literally haunted. While his investigation will lead him through the office of the ever-scheming police captain, Vikorn (Don't spoil a great case with too much perfectionism, he advises Sonchai); in and out of the influence of a perhaps psychotic wandering monk; and eventually into the gilded rooms of the most exclusive men's club in Bangkok (whose members will do anything to protect their identities, and to explore their most secret fantasies), it also leads him to his own simple bedroom where he sleeps next to his pregnant wife while his dreams deliver him up to Damrong . . . Ferociously smart and funny, furiously fast-paced, and laced through with an erotic ghost story that gives a new dark twist to the life of our hero,Bangkok Hauntsdoes exactly that from first page to last.
650			_aPolice _z-Thailand _z-Bangkok _v--Fiction
650		0	_aSnuff films _x-Fiction
650			_aSex-oriented businesses - _vFiction
651		0	_aBangkok (Thailand) _x-Fiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
942			_cMO
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