Cambodia Noir : A Novel (Hardcover)

from mamzel

This was not my normal fare, but I was intrigued by its setting in Cambodia. Will Keller is a photojournalist who takes a job to hunt down a young woman who was an intern for a local paper. Her sister has not heard from her and fears the worst. Will gets involved with a violent drug cartel to the...

from kcaroth1

I'm not a fan of "noir", and this was certainly a dark and stark look at parts of a country's underworld. However, this is author is a talented writer and that kept my interest through this murky, tangled story.

from SigmundFraud

The Noir series is wonderful for travel and mystery. You can find a "NOIR" for so many cities. Cambodia Noir or Indochine if you may, is riveting. It gives the reader and the travel to explore the nooks and crannies of Cambodia while being entertained. This book is worth a detour.

from zmagic69

If Irvine Welsh somehow melded with Hunter S. Thompson and decided to write a book about a washed up, Junkie news photographer, in Cambodia in the early 2000's, Cambodia Noir might be the result. Cambodia Noir is not a book a reader is likely to forget. The story does start off slow, and an impat...

from Welsh_eileen2

A run of the mill story of western characters based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The main protagonists are an American woman who disappears in the dark underworld of the city and the previously acclaimed war photographer, turned junkie, Will Keller. Keller sets out to find out what happened. Not a st...