Title: Thai Noir, Private Eye
Product review: This is at heart a fairly typical noir detective story, but it takes place in Bangkok with all of the exotica, erotica and culturally-foreign references that infers. Some of the backgrounds in Thai brothels may be a bit sleazy for some readers, but the insight into the "magical realism" of Buddhist thought I found fascinating.The book introduces a few too many unexpected plot twists in the later chapters, some of which strain credulity, but these did not outweigh the supreme joy of discovery in the first half.
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