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Der buddhistische Polizist Sonchai Jitpleecheep ermittelt im brodelnden Bangkok. Seine Fälle treiben ihn durch die düstere Unterwelt, führen ihn in elitäre Clubs und politische Vorzimmer ebenso wie in die berüchtigten Bordelle. Zwischen hartnäckigen Geistern, der CIA, ehemaligen Geliebten und ruchlosen Gangstern versucht er, seine Auffassung von Gerechtigkeit durchzusetzen. »Burdetts Stil sorgt für ein ungetrübtes Lesevergnügen - der oft subt...

Bangkok, rich in history and spirituality, crowded with temples, markets and canals, is also a city shrouded in shadows. Polluted, corrupt, infamous as the sex capital of the world, it is a place where wealth, poverty and unimaginable evil walk hand in hand. Crowded with astonishing characters, redolent with the authentic, hallucinogenic atmosphere of Bangkok, with needle-sharp observations about the clash of cultures when East meets West, thi...

Die Prostituierte Chanya ist überzeugt, einen Mord begangen zu haben. In ihrem Bett: ein toter Amerikaner, grausam zugerichtet, Mitarbeiter der CIA. Doch Sonchai Jitpleecheep glaubt nicht daran, dass Chanya mit dem Mord etwas zu tun hat. Ein Schuldiger muss her. Da trifft es sich bestens, dass die CIA nur zu gern an einen Terrorakt glaubt.

Nie zuvor hat Sonchai, der Polizist des berüchtigten achten Bezirks von Bangkok, ein Verbrechen mit ansehen müssen, das ihn so erschütterte. In einem Snuff-Video wird eine junge Frau ermordet - die Prostituierte und Sonchais ehemalige Geliebte Damrong. Auf der Suche nach ihren Mördern sieht er sich weitaus größeren Gegnern gegenüber als erwartet.

Im brodelnden Bangkok ist der Polizist Sonchai auf der Jagd nach den Mördern von William Bradley, einem skrupellosen amerikanischen Jadehändler. Der Fall wird persönlich, denn bei der Bergung des Toten kommt auch Sonchais Partner ums Leben - aus dem Wagen des Amerikaners kriechen etliche Giftschlangen hervor. Sonchai ist Buddhist, er sieht auch Kräfte am Werk, die unter der oberflächlichen Welt wirken. Seine Jagd nach den Tätern gerät zu eine...

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Pochi crimini ci fanno temere per l'evoluzione della nostra specie. Ne ho sotto gli occhi uno prorio ora". Sonchai Jitpleecheep è un detective del distretto 8 di polizia di Bangkok, ex monaco buddhista, figlio di una prostituta thai e di un americano reduce del Vietnam. Se un uomo della sua sperienza pronuncia una frase simile, si può esere certi che ci troviamo dinanzi a un delitto che a al di là di ogni immaginazione, siamo in una stanza osc...

The fifth Bangkok novel featuring Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the former Buddhist monk.

The latest novel to feature Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the Buddhist detective of the Royal Thai Police Force. Sonchai investigates rumours of the development of a super-soldier by the CIA.

In his latest case, Sonchai is paired with young, female inspector Krom. Like him, she's an outsider on the police force, but she is socially savyy and a technological prodigy. In the midst of a typhoon they witness a deadly demonstration of super-human strength from a man who is seemingly controlled by a CIA operative. Could the Americans really have figured out a way to create some sort of super-soldier who is both physically and psychologic...

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, but now he is heading out of his comfort zone. Way out. Assigned to the highest-profile case in all Thailand, he is tasked with ending international human-organ trafficking. His hunt will lead him across five countries and will draw in a host of unwitting players, including an aging rock star wearing out his second liver, and his quarry, twin Chinese queenpins of the i...

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In his explosive new thriller, Burdett captures the excitement and unease felt throughout the world on the eve of the changeover. Chan, a Chinese-Irish policeman, goes in search of the killer and the truth behind the British government's attempts at a cover-up.

In surreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, a US marine sergeant is killed inside a locked Mercedes by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras.

Bangkok, 2008. Il colonnello Vikorn della Royal Thai Police ha visto Il padrino e ha deciso di imitarne la struttura gerarchica nominando consigliere il detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep: insieme devono sbaragliare la piazza dello spaccio di droga in oriente. Il contatto di Vikorn è il dottor Norbu Tietsin, un lama tibetano in esilio a Kathmandu che vuole usare i profitti dell'affare per invadere la Cina. Non appena lo incontra, Sonchai - soffere...

Sonchai Jitpleecheep--Burdett's inimitable Thai police detective--is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Sonchai is more interested in finding Nirvana than in solving murders, in Burdett's most inventive, darkly comic novel yet.

Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller.A farang-a foreigner-has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchai's mother and his boss. The dead man was a CIA agent. To make matters worse, the apparent culprit is sweet-natured Chanya, the brothel's top earner and a woman whom the devoutly Buddhist sleuth has loved for several lif...