num_pages: 431
description: SURREAL BANGKOK ...City of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, where bodies and souls are for sale or rent, and where the way you die may be more important than the way you live. Inside a locked Mercedes, an African-American Marine sergeant is killed by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Two cops - the only two in the city not on the take - arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive. Sworn to avenge the death of his partner and soul brother, Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a fair-skinned Thai and a devout Buddhist, works his way through District 8. His tools are the forensic techniques of the modern police department; no less vital is his profound understanding of the mystical workings of the spirit world. Soon he is in a realm he has never before the moneyed underbelly of Bangkok, where desire rules and the human body is as custom-designable as a raw hunk of jade - and where Sonchai eventually tracks the killer, a predator of an even more sinister variety.
language: English
title: Bangkok 8: A Novel
titlecomplete: Bangkok 8: A Novel
genres: Mystery, Travel, Buddhism, Asia, Novels, Detective, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 10422
places: Bangkok, Thailand
series: Sonchai Jitpleecheep
publisher: Corgi Books