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Bangkok Tattoo

Bangkok Tattoo
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The second in the series of Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep . This takes the reader not only through Bangkok but to the area further south where there is a lot of unrest.

Jasmine Nights

Jasmine Nights
  • Author(s): S P Somtow
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

This is the story of a 12-year-old Thai boy called Mr Little Frog. The year is 1963 and he lives on the family estate in Bangkok. He refuses to accept that he is Thai, eats English food, speaks only...

Nightmare in Bangkok: The Incredible True Account of Survival

Nightmare in Bangkok: The Incredible True Account of Survival
  • Author(s): Andy Botts
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Andy Botts began his criminal activities as a young ‘car banger’ in his native Hawaii before graduating to drug-dealing and trafficking. After a number of successful and highly lucrative drug runs to Bangkok and Bali (though not without some...

Phnom Penh Express

Phnom Penh Express
  • Author(s): Johan Smits
  • Location(s): Bangkok, Belgium, Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

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...

The Corruptionist

The Corruptionist
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set during the recent turbulent times in Thailand, the 11th novel in the Calvino series centers around the street demonstrations and occupation of Government House in Bangkok. Hired by an American businessman, Calvino finds himself caught in the middle...

The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison

The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison
  • Author(s): Warren Fellows
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s/1980s

In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious...

The Windup Girl

The Windup Girl
  • Author(s): Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Cli-fi
  • Era(s): Future

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the windup girl – the...

Welcome to Hell: One Man’s Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton

Welcome to Hell: One Man’s Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton
  • Author(s): Colin Martin
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Family man Colin Martin runs into trouble and the upshot is – jail in Bangkok, where he has to face a corrupt legal system and mistreatment of inmates. A truly scary and rivetting read.

Bangkok Haunts

Bangkok Haunts
  • Author(s): John Burdett
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkok’s crime-riddled District 8. But the terrifying snuff movie he’s been sent anonymously is something else: the person who dies is Damrong, the beautiful woman he once...

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors
  • Author(s): B A Paris
  • Location(s): Surrey, Bangkok, London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’d like to get to know Grace better. But it’s difficult,...

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