Christopher Moore
Description
Review "Moore writes to entertain, and that he does." -- The Bangkok Post Product Description Heaven Lake Press, Trade paperback edition (1999) ISBN:9
...
748711633 Binding is quality trade paperback. New condition. 5" - 7 3/4" tall. Publisher's inventory. The German edition of this book won the 2004 German Critics Award. From the Back Cover In Phnom Penh UNTAC peacekeeping forces are winding down operations after the election. Before they pack it in, UNTAC police officers are drawn into a series of murders. Calvino takes a case from sometime Bangkok grifter named Patten who has a business partner in Phnom Penh. Only Hatch, the partner, has gone to ground.Calvino and Pratt find the UNTAC Civ. Pol. trying to keep the lid on a city filled with violence. There is gun fire nightly. Vietnamese hookers sell themselves to UNTAC forces from the balcony of the Lido Bar. Calvino traces leads on Hatch through the Russian market, the hospitals, bars, foreign correspondence club, UNTAC Headquarters, news briefings and nightclubs looking for clues that might help him find Hatch. He's not the only one looking for him.No recent novel has followed characters down the mean streets and through the prisons of Brother Number One's capital city. Calvino and Pratt ride through the killing fields that are still being planted with the dead.
Read more