Bangkok Asset: A Novel (Sonchai Jitpleecheep)

by John Burdett

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 case will take Sonchai to a hidden Cambodian jungle compound for aging American vets where he will discover exactly how far a government will go to protect its very worst secrets - both past and present. It is also a case that will shake Sonchai's world to its very foundation and may finally force him to confront his lost father.

• ISBN10: 0307272680
• ISBN13: 9780307272683
• Publish Date: 4 August 2015
• Publish Status: Remaindered
• Out of Print: 9 May 2017
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[viking2917]

I love John Burdett. He's one of the few authors I know who can really get inside another culture and explore both how its the same, and different, as my own. In this episode of the investigations of Sonchai Jitpleecheep (half American, half Thai detective in Bangkok), he veers into spooky territory. Trans-humans, Vietnamese / american "Apocalypse Now" camps in the Cambodian jungle, and of course a good mystery. Great fun.