John Burdett Livres

Bangkok 8, c'est le code postal du quartier chaud de la mégalopole thaïlandaise, un égout à ciel ouvert et un champ de bataille dans lequel opère Sonchaï Jitpleecheep, fils d'un GI et d'une fille de bar thaïe. Seul policier de Bangkok à ne pas toucher de pots-de-vin, bouddhiste pratiquant, il est chargé d'enquêter sur un meurtre peu banal : celui d'un marine américain noir retrouvé - mort - dans une Mercedes blindée aux portières condamnées. En la seule compagnie d'un python et d'une flopée de cobras hypervenimeux... Sonchai part dans les bas-fonds de la ville à la recherche du meurtrier. Cette plongée dans un monde qu'il connaît mieux que personne, en compagnie d'un agent du FBI de sexe féminin qu'on lui assigne contre son gré, permet au lecteur ébahi de découvrir, au-delà d'une intrigue com-plexe et riche en rebondissements, une ville où règnent drogues, corruption, prostitution, misère et richesse illimitées. Un univers hallucinant, beaucoup plus sinistre que tout ce que Sonchai lui-même aurait pu imaginer...

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, but now he is heading out of his comfort zone. Way out. Assigned to the highest-profile case in all Thailand, he is tasked with ending international human-organ trafficking. His hunt will lead him across five countries and will draw in a host of unwitting players, including an aging rock star wearing out his second liver, and his quarry, twin Chinese queenpins of the international body-parts trade known as the Vultures. Meanwhile, there are rumors at home that Sonchai’s wife is having an affair. Although he has always known about her disreputable past, this is something else entirely. Confronting the rumors—and controlling his jealousy—while embroiled in the most contentious case of his career may well be more than this detective’s Buddhist soul can handle.

Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkok's crime-riddled District 8. But the terrifying snuff movie he's been sent anonymously is something else: the person who dies is Damrong, the beautiful woman he once loved and whom he still dreams about.

A plastic bag containing three rotting heads is discovered near the Chinese mainland. The British seem to be keen for the investigation to drag on until after June 1997, the powerful Mr Xian wants a swift conclusion to the case, and the NYPD are taking a curious interest in events.

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 lives up to the smart and darkly funny originality of its predecessors.

When the mutilated body of a CIA agent is discovered in District 8 and the killer appears to be a local working girl, Sonchai searches for the truth amid a cover-up orchestrated by his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn.

Sonchai Jitpleecheep--Burdett's inimitable Thai police detective--is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Sonchai is more interested in finding Nirvana than in solving murders, in Burdett's most inventive, darkly comic novel yet.

In his latest case, Sonchai is paired with young, female inspector Krom. Like him, she's an outsider on the police force, but she is socially savyy and a technological prodigy. In the midst of a typhoon they witness a deadly demonstration of super-human strength from a man who is seemingly controlled by a CIA operative. Could the Americans really have figured out a way to create some sort of super-soldier who is both physically and psychologically enhanced? Are they testing it, or him, on Thai soil? And why is everyone, from the Bangkok police to the international community, so eager to turn a blind eye?