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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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,...

Reality of life in a Thai prison

In the Land of Smiles, things are rarely as they seem. Calvino, an outsider, is fighting hypocrisy, prejudice and corruption