John Burdett
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Language
Deutsch
Description
Als Polizist im berüchtigten achten Bezirk von Bangkok hat Sonchai Jitpleecheep schon viel gesehen. Kein Verbrechen aber hat ihn je an der menschlichen Spezies zweifeln lassen. Doch Sonchai spürt, dass er in diesem Augenblick ein solches Verbrechen mit ansehen muss: Im abgedunkelten Raum der Polizeistation läuft ein Snuff-Movie. Und die junge Frau, die in diesem mörderischen Film vor seinen Augen getötet wird, ist niemand anderes als Damrong,...
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Language
English
Description
In The Last Six Million Seconds, popular thriller author John Burdett creates a hard-hitting tale, bursting with true-to-life urgency and breath-taking suspense. He plunges listeners into Hong Kong where residents uneasily count the hours as they relentlessly speed toward the date when China again rules. After a tourist spots a suspicious package floating in the South China Sea, Chief Inspector Chan Siu-kai, known as Charlie to his friends, commands...
Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
Sonchai Jitpleecheep is back! The Royal Thai Police Detective, our wily, sometimes madly bold guide through the author's previous acclaimed Bangkok novels, is this time on the trail of an American conspiracy, and once again-and closer than ever-on the trail of his American father.
Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
John Burdett writes darkly inventive fiction with a comic twist. In The Godfather of Kathmandu, Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called to a grisly murder scene that could make or break his career, but he's more worried about impressing Tietsin, his new Buddhist guru. However, Tietsin would rather use Sonchai to help him broker a heroin deal worth 40 million dollars. Left with no easy way out and plenty of moral conflict, Sonchai...
5) Vulture Peak
Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
John Burdett's Bangkok series, featuring Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, has a reputation for being simultaneously morbid and witty. In Vulture Peak, Sonchai is tasked with ending human organ trafficking in Thailand. Before long he's wrapped up with a cast of characters that includes a washed-up rock star and a pair of Chinese twins known as the Vultures. And to complicate matters even further, Sonchai must also battle his ever-increasing...
Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel. Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the snuff film he's just been sent anonymously. Furiously fast-paced and laced through with an erotic ghost story that gives a new dark twist to the life of our hero, Bangkok Haunts more than...
Author
Series
Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
