So the owners are anxious to protect their staff, in particular their superstar employee, the enchanting Chanya.Īs the story opens, Chanya shows up from an assignation with a farang, an American CIA operative named Mitch Turner. The problem is that the drug worked too well, and these ' horny old codgers' are exhausting the club's whores and shrinking profit margins. Their idea was to exploit the ' hidden business opportunities of Viagra' via a new customer base of aging men. At the end of the first book, Sonchai's mother Nong and his astute boss, Police Colonel Vikorn, partnered to establish an ' Old Man's Club'. While Bangkok Tattoo lacks the shock factor that novelty gave the first episode, they are matched in twisting plot, and in emphasizing how little West is ever capable of understanding East. District 8 Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is a contradiction - a deeply spiritual antihero, who interacts on a daily basis with the dross of a city dealing in drugs and prostitution, and sees other people through the layered misdeeds of their past lives. John Burdett's debut in Bangkok 8 brought something unusual to mystery readers - a police procedural set in a system rife with corruption, with a cop protagonist atoning for a past murder.
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