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John Burdett

    July 24, 1951

    John Burdett is a novelist whose literary voice is shaped by his experiences living and working in diverse Asian locales. His narratives often explore the intersection of cultural complexities and human nature, presented with a sharp, observational style. Burdett's writing is celebrated for its insightful commentary and its ability to transport readers to vividly rendered settings.

    John Burdett
    Bangkok Tattoo, English edition
    Bangkok 8
    Bangkok Haunts: A Royal Thai Detective Novel (3)
    The Last Six Million Seconds
    Bangkok Haunts
    Vulture Peak
    • 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.

      Vulture Peak
    • 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.

      Bangkok Haunts
    • The Last Six Million Seconds

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.8(52)Add rating

      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.

      The Last Six Million Seconds
    • 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.

      Bangkok Haunts: A Royal Thai Detective Novel (3)
    • Bangkok 8

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.8(9179)Add rating

      A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities. Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep—a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I.—is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante mission to capture his partner’s murderer, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a beautiful FBI agent named Jones and captures her heart in the process. In a city fueled by illicit drugs and infinite corruption, prostitution and priceless art, Sonchai’s quest for vengeance takes him into a world much more sinister than he could have ever imagined.

      Bangkok 8
    • Bangkok Tattoo, English edition

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      3.7(74)Add rating

      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.

      Bangkok Tattoo, English edition
    • The godfather of Kathmandu

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      3.7(92)Add rating

      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.

      The godfather of Kathmandu
    • The Bangkok Asset

      A Royal Thai Detective Novel

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.4(23)Add rating

      Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep faces an unsettling murder investigation in Bangkok, marked by a gruesome beheading and a cryptic blood message. His journey leads him to a shocking nighttime event that challenges his beliefs and values. Following a trail of clues, Sonchai ventures into the Cambodian jungle, uncovering a conspiracy that intertwines with the American CIA and Chinese military, revealing the lengths to which governments will go to safeguard their darkest secrets.

      The Bangkok Asset
    • The Bangkok Asset

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.4(642)Add rating

      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?

      The Bangkok Asset