6/7/2023 0 Comments Bangkok tattoo book![]() ![]() Both were a hoot! There are some really succinct observations of life in Thailand, religion, face and the ways of the Thai people so not only is it entertaining, you learn something too. Two of the characters were well done, the Colonel and the main character's mother. As seems to be Burdett's thing, there are the inevitable katoey characters and someone dying and being stuffed full of long, slithering creatures. ![]() ![]() The novel moves around from Bangkok, down to the troubled south of Thailand, and back.Ĭhunks of the story take place in Soi Cowboy, but not so much as to put you off if that is not really your thing. What follows is something of a whodunnit style novel with the cops investigating things here and covering things up there. There is a murder on the premises, one of the customers purportedly killed and then maimed by one of the girls. Sonchai, the look-kreung cop helps out his mother, a former woman of the night, in their Soi Cowboy bar which specifically targets aged gentleman. Following on from the hugely popular Bangkok 8, John Burdett comes back with the same characters in another Thai police district whodunnit style novel. ![]()
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