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Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett

Tuesday August 23, 2005

John Burdett's Bangkok 8 (2004) chronicles the adventures of Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a police detective in District 8 of the Royal Thai Police. Sonchai is a devout Buddhist, driven into the religion by a childhood sin and exiled by monks into the police force to make a statement and lead by example.

Bangkok Tattoo, the 2005 sequel, is no less strange and wonderful, starting as it does with the other fascinating character of the books, Sonchai's brothel-owning, entrepreneurial mother.

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