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Americans Foreign countries Fiction Bangkok (Thailand) Fiction Older men Fiction Organ trafficking Fiction Police Thailand Bangkok Fiction Sex-oriented businesses Fiction Snuff films Fiction Sonchai Jitpleecheep (Fictitious character) Fiction Travel writers Fiction United States History 1961-1969 FictionMathews, 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: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURHallinan, 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 HALBurdett, John.
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BURCotterill, 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 COTBurdett, 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 BURBacigalupi, 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 BACSchwarz, 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: FIC SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Schwartz 2021Hallinan, 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 HALHallinan, Timothy.
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