John Burdett
2) Bangkok 8
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Called to a murder scene involving a locked Mercedes, an American marine sergeant, and drugged snakes, Amerasian policeman Sonchai Jitplecheep and his partner arrive a little too late. With his partner dead, Sonchai tracks the killer through the underbelly of Bangkok, a place where human lives are for sale and predators lurk.
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep--John Burdett's inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul--is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru--and has forty million dollars' worth of heroin for sale.
4) Vulture peak
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Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact - more or less - despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok. But for his newest assignment, everything he knows about his city - and himself - will be a mere starting point.
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Sonchai Jitpleecheep--the brash and beguiling Royal Thai Police Force detective who has been our guide through John Burdett's five previous acclaimed Bangkok novels--is back. The former monk and devout Buddhist, forever battling to protect his karma from the assaults of morally compromising cases, is now faced with the most horrifying technological innovation to make its way to the streets of Bangkok, and a conspiracy of almost unfathomable reach....
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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...
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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,...