Anarchy and Old Dogs, Colin Cotterill
Anarchy and Old Dogs, Colin Cotterill
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Anarchy and Old Dogs
The Dr. Siri Investigations, Book 4

Author: Colin Cotterill

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/24/2011


Synopsis

An elderly man has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos. At the age of seventythree, Siri is too old to be in awe of the new communist bureaucrats for whom he now works. Before he can identify the corpse, he must decipher a letter in the mans pocketit is written in invisible ink and in code. He was a blind retired dentist, his widow explains, and the enigmatic letters and numbers describe chess moves, but they are unlike any chess symbols Siri has previously encountered. With the help of his old friend, Civilai, now a senior member of the Laos politburo; Nurse Dtui; Phosy, a police officer; and Auntie Bpoo, a transvestite fortuneteller, Siri must solve the mystery of the note to the blind dentist and foil a plot to overthrow the government of Laos.

About Colin Cotterill

Colin Cotterill has won the Dilys Award and a Crime Writers of America Dagger and has been a finalist for several other awards. Born in London, he has worked as teacher in Israel, Australia, the United States, and Japan before he started training teachers in Thailand. He lives with his wife in a small fishing village on the Gulf of Siam in Southern Thailand.


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When my GR friends Carol. and Carol agree on something, you had better have a good reason to take a different path. I do not. I completely concur that Anarchy and Old Men is a gem in the series of stories about Dr. Siri Paibun, head coroner for the country of Laos. Set in the 1970s, Laotians have ove......more