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Killed at the Whim of a Hat

Killed at the Whim of a Hat
  • Author(s): Colin Cotterill
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family-a mother who might be drifting mentally: a grandfather-a retired cop-who rarely talks: a younger brother obsessed with body-building, and a transgendered, former...

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...

Nowhere to Goa

Nowhere to Goa
  • Author(s): Doug E Jones
  • Location(s): India, Nepal, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nowhere To Goa is a travel adventure novel set in Nepal, India, and Thailand that takes off when Scott, a studious sophomore at Northwestern University, flies halfway around the world to bring home his troublesome twin brother who has...

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 Hottest Place

The Hottest Place
  • Author(s): Tabitha Flyte
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Abigail is having a great time relaxing on a hot and steamy tropical island in Thailand. She tries to stay faithful to her boyfriend back in England, but it isn’t easy when a variety of attractive, fun-loving young people...

The Ming Inheritance

The Ming Inheritance
  • Author(s): T Hunt Locke
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Historical and Modern

A six hundred year old legend brought to life~a heart stopping race against history…Phitsanulok, October 1465 AD. The long lost Ming Emperor Jianwen is secretly and finally laid to rest in the northern reaches of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. An...

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.

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