Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edgedтАФa thriller unlike any other.
Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snakeтАФa charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras.
Two copsтАФthe only two in the city not on the takeтАФarrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive: Sonchai JitpleecheepтАФa devout Buddhist, equally versed in the sacred and the profaneтАФson of a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. and a Thai bar girl whose subsequent international clientele contributed richly to SonchaiтАЩs sophistication.
Now, his partner dead, Sonchai is doubly compelled to find the murderer, to maneuver through the world he knows all to wellтАФillicit drugs, prostitution, infinite corruptionтАФand 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 killerтАФand a predator of an even more sinister variety.
Thick with the authenticтАФand hallucinogenicтАФatmosphere of Bangkok, crowded with astonishing characters, uniquely smart and skeptical, literary and wildly readable, Bangkok 8 is one of a kind.
Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edgedтАФa thriller unlike any other.
Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snakeтАФa charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras.
Two copsтАФthe only two in the city ...