Dr. Siri Investigations: Curse of the Pogo Stick (Audiobook)

from cameling

The Hmong, whether they chose to side with the Japanese, the French of the Americans, are people who have never been fairly treated by the ruling parties at the end of each war in which their help was sought. In Laos, the plight of the nomadic Hmong is observed at first hand by Dr Siri when he is...

from cathyskye

First Line: As there were no longer any records, the Hmong could not even tell when they actually misplaced their history. Dr. Siri and his boss have traveled to the north in Laos to attend a Communist Party meeting. Dr. Siri would rather undergo a series of root canals without anesthesia. Back i...

from alanteder

Dr. Siri and the Hmong Exorcism Review of the Knopf Canada hardcover edition (August 26, 2008) of the Soho Crime hardcover original (July 1, 2008) Curse of the Pogo Stick is the 5th book of the Dr. Siri Paiboun series and has Lao national coroner Dr. Siri and his nemesis Judge Haeng off in North...

from richardderus

Rating: 4* of five The Book Description: In Vientiane, a booby-trapped corpse, intended for Dr. Siri, the national coroner of Laos, has been delivered to the morgue. In his absence, only Nurse Dtui's intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors, and Madame Daeng, Dr. Si...

from jnwelch

"Cars had become front yard ornaments. The sound of a passing engine prompted little children to run to the street's edge and wave. Siri might have been right. Laos was shrinking back into a preindustrial age." We're back in 1970s Laos after a Communist takeover significantly assisted by our now ...