John Burdett
1) Bangkok 8
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 1
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Bangkok policeman Sonchai Jitplecheep investigates the murder of an African American Marine sergeant and the subsequent death of his partner, making his way through a world of illicit drugs and corruption to find a vicious killer.
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 3
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[2007]
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective, returns in this novel. He has seen virtually everything in his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the video he's been sent anonymously. He has just viewed a snuff film.
3) Vulture peak
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 5
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Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep organizes a massive sting operation to end human organ trafficking in Thailand, an effort that is complicated by an aging rock star with liver disease and rumors about Sonchai's ex-prostitute wife.
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
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"From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, a new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep." "We return to District 8 - the underbelly of Bangkok's underworld - where a dramatically mutilated dead body is found. It's bad: he was CIA. It gets worse: the murderer appears to be Chanya - a tough, sweet working girl who's the highest earner at The Old Man's Club, jointly owned by Sonchai's...
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 4
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[2010]
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John Burdett writes darkly inventive fiction with a comic twist. In The Godfather of Kathmandu, Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called to a grisly murder scene that could make or break his career, but he's more worried about impressing Tietsin, his new Buddhist guru. However, Tietsin would rather use Sonchai to help him broker a heroin deal worth 40 million dollars. Left with no easy way out and plenty of moral conflict, Sonchai...
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep-the brash and beguiling Royal Thai Police Force detective who has been our guide through John Burdetts five previous acclaimed Bangkok novels-is back. The former monk and devout Buddhist, forever battling to protect his karma from the assaults of morally compromising cases, is now faced with the most horrifying technological innovation to make its way to the streets of Bangkok, and a conspiracy of almost unfathomable reach.With...
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