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The Nineteen

The Nineteen
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

In January 2000, nearly a dozen of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted lieutenants gathered secretly in Malaysia at, of all places, a luxurious condominium overlooking a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course. The purpose of this summit meeting of terrorists was...

The Trip

The Trip
  • Author(s): Phoebe Morgan
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Ko Samet
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How well do you know your friends? Four friends on the holiday of a lifetime. Until a vicious murder shatters their paradise. Four friends who’d do anything for each other, until now. Only one of them committed a crime....

A Killing Smile

A Killing Smile
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 1990s

A Killing Smile is a simple but deep story about the aftermath of events following the death of a successful Los Angeles attorney’s wife. Lost, confused, and angry, Lawrence Baring, Esq. goes to Bangkok and confronts Tuttle–the man his...

A Nail Through the Heart

A Nail Through the Heart
  • Author(s): Timothy Hallinan
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble – so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart....

A World of Trouble

A World of Trouble
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Jack Shepherd is sick of Washington politics, sick of corporate law, and even a little sick of himself. So he hits the road looking for a new start, makes a couple of wrong turns, and winds up in Hong...

Bamboo Grove

Bamboo Grove
  • Author(s): Romy Wood
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A pseudo-Buddhist monk, an illegal immigrant, a bipolar teenager and a quixotic pair of young businessmen are all bound by Eastern Vision, an empire selling everything from faux-Eastern objets to real estate, from client-centred sperm-donation to gypsy magic. A...

Bangkok Bob and The Missing Mormon

Bangkok Bob and The Missing Mormon
  • Author(s): Stephen Leather
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Long-term Bangkok resident and former New Orleans cop Bob Turtledove has a knack for getting people out of difficult situations. So when a young man from Utah goes missing in Bangkok, his parents are soon knocking on Bob’s door...

Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton

Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton
  • Author(s): Sandra Gregory
  • Location(s): Bangkok, England
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Sandra Gregory was living a life in Bangkok that many only dream of – until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare. Desperate to get home, she agreed to smuggle an addict’s personal supply of heroin....

Gambling on Magic

Gambling on Magic
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s and flashbacks to first half 20th Century

Gambling on Magic is set in Bangkok where life is more than good for Joey Balfour, ex-patriot gambling king, former TV personality, and the current owner of the mysterious and exotic Feng Shui Flower Shop in downtown Bangkok. Then...

Killing Plato

Killing Plato
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Phuket
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Welcome to Phuket. It s a paradise, for the rich, the beautiful and the heavily armed. When Jack Shepherd runs into international racketeer and fugitive Plato Karsarkis in a Phuket beach bar one night, little can he imagine the...

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