Royal Thai Detective Novels Bangkok 8: A Royal Thai Detective Novel (1), Book 1, (Paperback)

from crazybatcow

Not only is is a crime/detective novel, it's a glimpse into the underbelly of a nation riddled with corruption, prostitution, crime and poverty - all of which is "normalized" through the main character's Buddhist mentality. It has interesting details of prostitution as a lifestyle, or, more accur...

from cameling

Fast paced and rich in details. Not only is there a complex mystery to solve, by one Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheap, one of a very very small number of Thai policemen who don't accept bribes, but the book also delves into the subtleties of the Thai culture. There's a great deal of Thai culture th...

from bcquinnsmom

Bangkok 8 is the district in which the main character, Sonchai Jitpleecheep is a police detective) where Jitpleechep & his partner are assigned to keep a tail on an American -- but he ends up dead in a Mercedes filled with cobras and a python is eating his head as the detectives arrive. Jitpleech...

from LukeS

In "Bangkok 8," what has John Burdett wrought? We witness Sonchai Jitpleecheep, one of the very few uncorrupted cops in Bangkok, use meditation, charm, and his own subtle use of Bangkok's culture of bribery to untangle the web of drug trafficking, prostitution, art fraud, and murder which has env...

from debs4jc

Police detective Sonchai and his partner Pichai are following a black American ex-marine. They catch up to him just after he has been killed by an assortment of drug crazed snakes--one of which also kills Pichai. Thus begins Thai detective Sonchai's first adventure as a virtuous Buddhist cop who ...