Private Dancer, Stephen Leather
Private Dancer, Stephen Leather
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Private Dancer

Author: Stephen Leather

Narrator: David Thorpe, Jilly Bond

Unabridged: 11 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2015

Synopsis

Thailand 1996. The Year of The Rat. Pete, a young travel writer, wanders into a Bangkok go-go bar and meets the love of his life. Joy is the girl of his dreams, young, stunningly pretty, and one of the Zombie Bar's top earning pole dancers. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of sex, drugs and deception, as Pete discovers that his very own private dancer is not all that she claims to be. And that far from being the girl of his dreams, Joy is his own personal nightmare.

About Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful ebook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television.You can learn more from Stephen's website, www.stephenleather.com, and find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephenleatherofficial/.Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on December 17, 2016

This is a stand-alone novel by the talented Stephen Leather based in Bangkok, Thailand. This book is quite different from the twenty or so other novels that I have read by this author and is not so much about crime as the strange love story between Pete a British journalist and Joy a Pole Dancer. Pe......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 09, 2022

Set in Thailand, this is a really thought provoking look at the sex industry in Bangkok. This reads like a news story,  it's fiction but has a feel of non fiction about it. It was no surprise to me that the author has written for the Daily Mail as this is sensational tabloid fodder and its extremely......more

Goodreads review by Trupti on January 09, 2011

If you have ever visited Pattaya, Bangkok, Chiang Mai or any other tourist places in Thailand, the most common sight you’d see is an old white man with a very young Thai girl. You’d wonder what’s up with that before you realize that they are actually bar girls or prostitutes and the white men are mo......more

Goodreads review by Elle on November 25, 2011

This is a very satisfying book and well worth the $5+ I spent for it. The author warned me it was more of a lad's book but since I am not much of a "lady", I read it anyway. Get ready to step into an alternate universe where anyone can be bought for the price of a cinema ticket, beautiful Asian ladie......more

Goodreads review by Yeany Dahlan on October 14, 2007

A chilling story which resemble more of a reportage about the dark world of Bangkok's gogo girls. Private Dancer tells a story of a western journalist who is stationed in Bangkok and falls hard for a gogo girl from the notorious Nana Plaza - the largest legally endorsed prostitution area in Bangkok. T......more

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