Bangkok Tattoo, John Burdett
Bangkok Tattoo, John Burdett
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Bangkok Tattoo

Author: John Burdett

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 11 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/26/2005

Synopsis

Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller.A farang–a foreigner–has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchai’s mother and his boss. The dead man was a CIA agent. To make matters worse, the apparent culprit is sweet-natured Chanya, the brothel’s top earner and a woman whom the devoutly Buddhist sleuth has loved for several lifetimes. How can Sonchai solve this crime without sending Chanya to prison? How can he engage in a cover-up without endangering his karma? And how will he ever get to the bottom of a case whose interested parties include American spooks, Muslim fundamentalists, and gangsters from three countries? As addictive as opium, as hot as Sriracha chili sauce, and bursting with surprises, Bangkok Tattoo will leave its mark on you.

About The Author

John Burdett is a national bestselling British crime novelist whose books include Bangkok 8 and its sequels. Prior to his writing career, he practiced law in London and Hong Kong for 14 years. Burdett now divides his time between Bangkok and southwest France. Paul Boehmer appeared in the acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband and on television in Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, Star Trek, and All My Children. He loves narrating audiobooks, and he lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brendan on November 01, 2016

Who reads a novel to be hectored? Especially a detective novel. There may be a masochistic few who actually enjoy being addressed as farang (Thai for “foreigner”) and then repeatedly lectured on the colossal failure that is Western civilization. But why take it from a $24 book when the rest of the w......more

Goodreads review by Neil on September 11, 2012

Once again I seem to be at odds with my co-reviewers; a glitch in my own system, I'm sure. When I started this book, I hoped it would be as good as Burdett's first. But as it progressed, I discovered that it was far more than an excellent whodunit. Burdett's insights into Buddhism and the way the disc......more

Goodreads review by Philip on May 22, 2016

This is really a very good book, and the best of the Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries I've read so far (although I read Godfather of Kathmandu first, and so didn't quite understand the backstory then -- I would definitely recommend you read them in order, and after the next one I'll probably reread Go......more

Goodreads review by Sam on July 24, 2022

This is the second entry in Burdett's series about a Bangkok detective whose mother runs a brothel, and an even wilder ride than the first one. (See my review of Bangkok 8.) Sonchai Jitpleecheep is the product of a Vietnam-era liaison between a Thai prostitute and a U.S. GI; his mom now runs a Bangko......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on July 25, 2021

Yuck. The first in the series, Bangkok 8, is described as "a thriller with an attitude to spare" and I was expecting something similar. The attitude is quite present in the first maybe 25%. The attitude is a "hey farang [Thai for western foreigner], our culture is better than yours and has been arou......more

Quotes

“An original, imaginative thriller. . . . Burdett writes like a dark angel.” –Chicago Tribune “You will read on and on, with wide-eyed fascination, some horror. . . and considerable delight. . . . If you’re looking for a good time, look no further.” –The Washington Post Book World “Mesmerizing: a comic tour of the underbelly of Bangkok in pursuit of both a murderer and the sublime.”–The New Yorker

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