Burdett, John.
Summary: Paired with a young misfit inspector with the Royal Thai Police force, tortured Buddhist detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep stumbles on a conspiracy surrounding a new super-soldier cyborg technology in a case that forces him to confront his lost father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURNesbø, Jo
Summary: Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work, not pleasure. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and no witnesses have come forward. The ambassador had close ties to the Norwegian prime minister, and to avoid a scandal Harry is sent there to hush up the case. But he quickly discovers that there is much more going on behind the scenes. When...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NESMathews, Francine.
Summary: With her career and credibility in ruins, Stefani Fogg takes on a deadly mission involving the decades-old disappearance of the man called the Silk King, an odyssey that traps her in a web of betrayal and deceit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATBurdett, John.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBurdett, John.
Summary: Just when he believes he's seen everything Bangkok's thriving criminal world has to offer, Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep receives an anonymous snuff film. A woman named Damrong who he onced loved is murdered in the film. Obsessed with Damrong's death, Sonchai braves street gangs, investigates a shady and exclusive men's club and staves off threats, seen and unseen, as he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Sonchai Jitpleecheep--John Burdett's inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul--is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBurdett, John.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BURPunyaratabandhu, Leela.
Summary: Every year, more than 16 million visitors flock to Thailand s capital city, and leave transfixed by the vibrant culture and unforgettable food they encounter along the way. Thai cuisine is more popular today than ever, yet there is no book that chronicles the real food that Thai people eat every day until now. In Bangkok, award-winning author Leela Punyaratabandhu offers 120 recipes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 PUNBurdett, John.
Summary: Sonchai Jitpleecheep, devout Buddhist and Royal Thai Police detective, has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the video he's just been sent anonymously. It's a snuff film, and the person dying before his disbelieving eyes is Damron--a woman he once loved obsessively and, now it becomes clear, endlessly. And there is something more: something at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURMoore, Christopher
Summary: A disbarred lawyer making a precarious living as a private investigator in Bangkok, Vincent Calvino is about to close the books on a major drug piracy ring, until his client dies of a heart attack and he stumbles upon the body of a massage girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOHallinan, Timothy
Summary: "Poke Rafferty is happier than he's ever been. He's financially solvent, his family is about to grow larger, and his adopted Thai daughter, Miaow, seems to have settled in at junior high school. All that is endangered when Miaow and her boyfriend, Andrew, buy a stolen iPhone from a shady vendor and discover photographs of two dead police officers on it--disgraced officers, violently murdered to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACHunt, Elizabeth Singer
Summary: "Meet Jack and Max Stalwart, Code Names: Courage and Wisdom. Jack and Max are ordinary kids who become secret agents by night, thwarting evil and saving priceless treasures as they solve mysteries around the world. Destination: Thailand. Temporarily retired from the GPF-Global Protection Force-and on family vacation, Jack Stalwart and his older brother, Max, are motivated to act when a band of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HUNSchwarz, Liese O'Halloran
Summary: In a story alternating between the past and present, Laura Preston flies to Thailand to meet a stranger claiming to be her lost brother, who disappeared when the Preston family lived in Bangkok forty years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Schwartz 2021Cotterill, Colin
Summary: "Thailand, 1996: Supot, a postman with the Royal Thai Postal Service, hates his job. The only bright light in his life is watching classic movies with his best friend, Ali, the owner of a video store. These cinephiles adore the charisma of the old Western stars, particularly the actresses, and bemoan the state of modern Thai cinema-until a mysterious cassette, entitled Bangkok 2010, arrives at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COTHallinan, Timothy.
Summary: Travel writer Poke Rafferty is good at looking for trouble -- so good that he makes a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. His Looking for Trouble series is for travelers obsessed with the unusual: how to beat official foreign exchange rates: how to spot fake amber or counterfeit money: how much to bribe a cop; how to identify a transvestite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALSummary: Julian, an American fugitive from justice, runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for his drug business. His mother, the head of a vast criminal organization, arrives from the U.S. to collect the body of her favorite son, Billy, who has just been killed. Crazy with rage and thirsty for vengeance she demands the heads of the murderers from Julian. But first, Julian must confront Chang, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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Summary: Talkative stranger Arthur Varney gains the trust of Poke Rafferty's friends in Bangkok in an attempt to obtain money that Poke does not have, and locate someone whom Poke is unwilling to hand over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALMorris, Bill
Summary: At the time of the Vietnam War, an American hotelier in Bangkok learns from a woman working for the U.S. State Department that the United States is planning to assassinate President Ngo Diem of Vietnam. The hotelier, Sam Mallory, a former navy frogman, takes it upon himself to save the Vietnamese president. By the author of Motor City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORSudbanthad, Pitchaya
Summary: "A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019