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Phnom Penh Express

Phnom Penh Express

Author(s): Johan Smits

Location(s): Bangkok, Belgium, Cambodia

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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A young Cambodian returns home. A diamond shipment goes missing. A foreign assassin arrives in Phnom Penh. And then there s chocolate lots of it. Phirun is determined to make it as Cambodia s first chocolate chef. But things don t go quite as planned when he gets unwittingly caught up in a deadly turf war between rivaling diamond mafia and those who are after them. Falling in love with a mysterious Khmer-Australian doesn t help him. Throw in an overzealous post-9/11 American Intelligence officer and a corrupt Belgian ex-Colonel, from Tel Aviv through Belgium and Bangkok right up to Phnom Penh in this fast read of crime and intrigue, chocolates have never tasted so good!

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