Spirit House by Christopher G Moore
The Bangkok police have a confession from a nineteen-year-old drug addict admitting to the murder of the British computer geek (though judging from the bruises on the suspect's face at the press conference, it appears they may have used more than a little gentle persuasion to get it). Case closed? Apparently so: only there are some loose ends that the police and just about everyone else is happy to overlook. Everyone except Vincent Calvino. Calvino's investigations into Hoadly's murder pitch him into Bangkok's darkest heart. From the red-light district of Patpong to the slums of Klong Toey, Vincent must navigate a world of gangsters, godfathers and crooked police, and try to outwit - and outrun - the professional hit men who have orders to stop him. It seems that this former public schoolboy kept some very dubious company. Featuring drug addicts, dope dealers, fortune tellers, and high-class call girls, The Spirit House is a hard-boiled page-turner that brings the contradictions of Bangkok to disturbing, exhilarating, life.
'Moore's flashy style successfully captures the dizzying contradictions of [Bangkok's] vertiginous landscape' New York Times 'Underneath Bangkok society is a deeply encrusted demiworld of hope, despair, corruption and courage that Moore, a writer who has lived there for almost 20 years, paints with maestrolike Dickensian strokes.' The Seattle Times 'A thinking man's Philip Marlowe, Calvino is a cynic on the surface but a romantic at heart.' Daily Yomiuri (Japan)
Christopher G. Moore is a Canadian citizen and formerly taught law at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of nine novels featuring Vincent Calvino, and the winner of the Deutscher Krimi Preis, Germany's most prestigious award for crime fiction. He has lived in Bangkok since 1988.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843547914 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843547910 |
| Title | Spirit House |
| Author | Christopher G Moore |
| Series | Vincent Calvino |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2008-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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