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An expat detective navigates through seamy, steamy Bangkok in this novel in the international bestselling and Shamus Awardâwinning series.  When PI Vincent Calvinoâs surveillance of a drug piracy ring ends in definitive video evidence, it looks like the fortunes of the American expatriate and disbarred lawyer are about to turn. But when Calvinoâs client dies of a heart attack, and he finds the body of a murdered massage girl downstairs, the Thai authorities get suspicious of the farang who was in the wrong place at the wrong time . . . twice.  To make matters worse, with the dead man unlikely to pay, Calvino is forced to take on a job he doesnât want, trailing the spouses of three expat housewives who have been rattled by âThe Risk of Infidelity Index,â a handbook that ranks Bangkok as the city where men are most likely to stray. Unfortunately for Calvino, jealous wives tend to be unhappy, regardless of the results, and drug pirates arenât the type to play nice . . .  âUnderneath Bangkok society is a deeply encrusted demiworld of hope, despair, corruption, and courage that Moore . . . paints with maestrolike Dickensian strokes.â âThe Seattle Times  âA terrific character . . . A terrific writer.â âT. Jefferson Parker |
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