BANGKOK 8 by John Burdett.
(2003)
Do you want something
bizarre/outrageous/crazy/extreme and over-sexed? Then dig into the world of John Burdett’s
BANGKOK
trilogy. Disappointment is not even an option for this series!!
Even better, the series
consisting of BANGKOK
8, BANGKOK HAUNTS & BANGKOK TATTOO gets more and more wild and insane with
each proceeding series, the last one, TATTOO, even I had a little hard time
finishing it.
Never cease to amuse, this is
bizarre/crazy and funny (yes it is hilarious at times), at it’s best.
And here is BANGKOK 8 which started everything.
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layers. – Sonchai Jitpleecheep. Main
guy-after reading all three volumes, I still don't know how to pronounce his
name. The only cop in this city who is not bent or twisted. That ,by the way,
is not an easy task when your mother is ex-prostitutes who operates big brothel
and your boss, colonel, not just runs the huge police department but also
controls everything else in his district-drugs, sex, alcohol, gamble, arms
dealer, etc….The fact that he is a devoted Buddhist always helps, but still….
In order to revenge his
ex-partner who gets killed and also was one of the only two cops in the city
not on the take, our hero, Sonchai, literally goes through top to bottom,
swiping Bangkok from every possible angle trying to track down the murderer.
The city is full of
festinating/crazy people and whoever Sonchai encounter throughout his crusade,
they all will be leaving very strong impression to you. You will have hard time
keeping track of all the strange/crazy characters in this book. And did I
mention they are all funny as hell?
By the way, his father is one of
those unknown G.I.'s from US
army base who just passed through one steamy night in Bangkok and disappeared, but must be the
handsome one, cause Sonchai is , according to the book, handsome as devil
himself!!.
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lace. – Like all other EXOTIC
thriller, BANGKOK
the city plays huge part in this book. I mean, if this happens in any other
place in earth, it could be a just really good detective novel. But because
Sonchai and other characters are in BANGKOK,
it is in totally different league!!
Since, Sonchai goes everywhere in
the city, whore house to the city hall, police station to the night club, we
readers are in a HOLLY-S##T kind of ride here.
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lot. – I don’t want to give away anything here. But if
you just get used to the sexual stuff in here, this book delivers quite
good/complex storyline with full of black humor making it hilarious and
exhilarating at the same time.
Plot also is as crazy as the city
itself.
This book is like “’ BANGKOK
TRAVELER’S GUIDE” written by someone with too much drinks/sex and high
intelligent and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!
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erdict. – For the reader who is looking
for something TOTALLY different. Sex is everywhere (Sex
industry’s annual turnover is twice that of Thai government’s, can you
imagine?) and Author make sure we understand that by doing a lot of detailed
work on sex trade.
This kind of strange/GREAT books
don’t come that easily, but John Burdett is right up there with grand master
like Hunter C. Thompson(Leaving Las Vegas, anyone?).
This is truly wonderful “Alice in wonder XXX-land” thrillers with mad hatter and
crazy queen and everyone in between. So go ahead, take a risk. It’s worth it(I
was for a short period of time obsessed with this book.). You will either LOVE
it or HATE it and nothing in the middle. Good luck.
