Christopher G. Moore: Spirit House (USA 2008) From the Publisher: A farang is dead and the Bangkok police have a confession the next morning from a young paint-thinner addict. He claims he killed Ben Hoadly, an expat Brit, but Calvino has his doubts when he sees heavy bruises on the kid's face. In no time Calvino is working both sides, out to find the killer for Hoadly's wealthy father, and eager to clear the addict's name for a beautiful friend who runs a charity in the slums. With the help of his best friend, Pratt, a Shakespearequoting Thai police colonel, and his loyal assistant, Ratana, Calvino plunges into the dangerous world of addicts, dealers, fortune tellers, inexpensive hit men, oversexed foreigners, and professional bar girls. Spirit House is a thrilling introduction to Vincent Calvino and Christopher G. Moore's Bangkok. Christopher G. Moore: Spirit House. A Vincent Calvino Crime Novel. Grove Press, ISBN: 9780802143525 (August, 2008), 336 p., $13.00.
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Christopher G. Moore: Spirit House (UK 2008) From the Publisher: The Bangkok police have a confession from a nineteen-year-old drug addict admitting to the murder of the British computer geek (though judging from the bruises on the suspect's face at the press conference, it appears they may have used more than a little gentle persuasion to get it). Case closed? Apparently so: only there are some loose ends that the police and just about everyone else is happy to overlook. Everyone except Vincent Calvino. Calvino's investigations into Hoadly's murder pitch him into Bangkok's darkest heart. From the red-light district of Patpong to the slums of Klong Toey, Vincent must navigate a world of gangsters, godfathers and crooked police, and try to outwit -- and outrun -- the professional hit men who have orders to stop him. It seems that this former public schoolboy kept some very dubious company. Featuring drug addicts, dope dealers, fortune tellers, and high-class call girls, Spirit House is a hard-boiled page-turner that brings the contradictions of Bangkok to disturbing, exhilarating, life. Christopher G. Moore: Spirit House. A Vincent Calvino Mystery. Atlantic Books, ISBN: 9781843547914 (July, 2008), 310 p., £6.99.
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Christopher G. Moore: Spirit House (Thailand 2004) From the Publisher: Calvino searches for the killer of an English expat journalists. Lt. Col. "Pratt" of the Thai police department believes the killer is a teenage drug addict who has already confessed to the murder. But Calvino uncovers evidence of a larger network of crime -- drugs and murder -- spanning from Patpong, to the slums of Klong Toey, and reaching into the expat financial and business community. As the death toll mounts, the reversals and twists take Calvino and Pratt deep into a world closed to outsiders; a place where the gods of envy and sex dance across a bridge connecting the East and West. Christopher G. Moore: Spirit House. A Novel. Heaven Lake Press, ISBN: 9749238931, 299 p., $13.95.
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