Author: Jerry Hopki
Publisher: Periplus Editio
Keywords: bangkok, expatriates, stranger, fiction, legendary, exploits, babylon, real, life
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-05-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 079460224X
ISBN-13: 9780794602246
In the colorful tradition of Hemingways A Movable Feast, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling 25 of the citys most unforgettable characters. Among them are the man thought to be the model for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, an advertising executive who photographs Thai bargirls for Playboy, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who moved there to die, a Catholic priest who has lived and worked in the Bangkok slums for 35 years, a circus dwarf turned computer programmer turned restaurateur, three Vietnam war helicopter pilots whoopened a go-go bar, a pianist
Author: Jerry Hopkins
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Keywords: bangkok, expatriates, stranger, fiction, legendary, exploits, babylon, real, life
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-09-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0804840776
ISBN-13: 9780804840774
Author: John Burdett
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novel, bangkok
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2004-07-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1400032903
ISBN-13: 9781400032907
When a U.S. Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal Thai Police Force whose idea of justice precludes his fellow officers’ customary system of bribery. This assignment’s especially important to the devout detective for during the investigation of the murder scene, the methamphetamine-stoked snakes that bit the marine also kill Sonchai’s police partner, best friend, and Buddhist soul-mate Pichai. Sonchai’s pursuit of revenge will team him with a sexually frustrated FBI a
Author: Dominic Lavi
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: bangkok, last
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-12-12
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 1847539645
ISBN-13: 9781847539649
A cross between Trainspotting and The Beach, Last Seen in Bangkok is a must read for anyone who’s even thought of going anywhere besides Majorca on holiday. Vinny Croston’s, had enough of the work, weather and women in England. When he meets Jeed in Pattaya he thinks he’s found true love in tropical paradise. Along with his best mate Keith Rossi a debt ridden Cocaine dealer he conspires to realise his dream and embarks on a treacherous journey through fraud, drugs, violence, triads, prostitution, trafficking and money laundering. From the gloom of Manchester to the heat of Ba
Author: Wilfried Hahn
Publisher: Mairdumont
Keywords: bangkok
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3829703694
ISBN-13: 9783829703697
Author: John Burdett
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: bangkok
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-06-03
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1400040442
ISBN-13: 9781400040445
Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edged—a thriller unlike any other.Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snake—a charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras.Two cops—the only two in the city not on the take—arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive: Sonchai Jitpleecheep—a devout Buddhist, equally versed in the sacred and the profane—son of a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. and a Thai bar girl whose subsequent international clientele contributed richly to Sonchai’s sophisticati
Author: Lawrence Osborne
Publisher: North Point Press
Keywords: days, bangkok
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-05-26
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0865477329
ISBN-13: 9780865477322
A PASSIONATE, AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLD’S HOTTEST METROPOLIS Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasonsa sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke (but no longer in pain), he finds that he can live in Bangkok on a few dollars a day. And so the restless exile stays. Osborne’s is a visceral experience of Bangkok, whether he’s wandering the canals that fill the old city; dining at the No Hands Restaurant, where his waitress feeds him like a baby;
