Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkok's crime-riddled District 8. But the terrifying snuff movie he's been sent anonymously is something else: the person who dies is Damrong, the beautiful woman he once loved and whom he still dreams about.
And there's more: slayings turn the ensuing investigation into a murder inquiry, and Sonchai into an obsessed and haunted man.
Sonchai's inquiries follow a dizzying route from his own apartment, where he sleeps next to his pregnant wife while his fantasies deliver him up to Damrong; to the backstreets of Phnom Penh, where street gangs are only the most visible threats; to the gilded rooms of the most exclusive men's club in Bangkok, whose members will do anything to explore their darkest fantasies ...
ISBN: | 9780552156875 |
Publication date: | 2nd June 2008 |
Author: | John Burdett |
Publisher: | Corgi Books an imprint of Transworld |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 428 pages |
Genres: |
Crime and Mystery Crime and mystery: police procedural Thriller and Suspense |