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From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
We return to District 8—the underbelly of Bangkok’s underworld—where a dramatically mutilated dead body is found. It’s bad: he was CIA. It gets worse: the murderer appears to be Chanya—a tough, sweet working girl who’s the highest earner at The Old Man’s Club, jointly owned by Sonchai’s mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn.
Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves Al Qaeda and Thailand’s porous southern border where, since 9/11, the CIA has been an obviously covert presence. But the truth will be harder to come by, and it will require Sonchai to find an ever-more-delicate balance between his ambition and his Buddhism, while running the gamut of Bangkok’s drug dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, worse military, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart (Chanya!)—most of which he can handle. But even Sonchai is not prepared for what he discovers at the end of his investigation.
Piercingly smart and funny, densely atmospheric, and—as we already know to expect from John Burdett—packing a surprise at every turn, Bangkok Tattoo is sensational.
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By Ken Douglas (Landlocked in Reno)
Thailand is different than America, that is something you'll learn in this excellent thriller. The police work differently too. The values are different, not better, not worse, just different. Different cultures, different ways of doing things. So when the police discover the dismembered body of CIA agent Mitch Turner don't be surprised when they try to make the murder into something it isn't.
Sonchai Jitpleecheep (I don't know why I want to pronounce his name `Littlejeep,' but that's what my mind sees) is back from Bangkok 8, one of the best thrillers I have ever read and he's just as lovable, loyal and quirky here. Sonchai's mother owns a house of ill repute that caters to the Viagra crowd with his boss, Colonel Vikorn and the suspect in the CIA man's death is their star, number one girl Chanya, so naturally Vikorn does not want Chanya jailed, so he shapes her statement, actually writes it for her and makes it look like self defense. But later they find that not only was his you-know-what cut off, but that the skin had been flayed from his back.
So now the murder takes on a new twist and with CIA types after terrorist types, old men taking Viagra, and Sonchai's attraction for Chanya you have all the ingredients of a dynamite thriller. Did I forget to mention that this culture clashing story is funny too. And that these characters will live with you for a long time after you finish the book. Now if Mr. Burdett's publishers would only make his terrific thriller, The Last Six Million Seconds available again. Ah well, this book is as good as, but not better than Seconds and Bangkok 8. All three are at the top of the genre.
By Utah Resident (Utah)
Take a wild ride through a culture that is at the same time grounded in the hard-core facts of economic survival, but equally steeped in mysticism. The narrator is a most appealing character, who struggles with doing his job while balancing these outlooks in his search for the truth. Wickedly funny also!
By Melita W. Thorpe
Bangkok Tattoo provides and insight to the darker side of Bangkok. Brilliantly constructed; a page turner till the last; leaves you reaching for the next one.
By James V. Gallagher IV (Hershey, PA USA)
The story is well crafted. I particularly like the way the writing meanders as if to mimic certain aspects of Thai or Buddhist mentality. Incongruously for a thriller, words that come to my mind to describe the book are Stasis (of a hot tropical city) and Passivity (of the main characters). Teasing humor, Tangled webs of motivations and lies, sex, gender, drugs are also prominent elements. Intelligence and Psychological insight enhance the writing.
The only stylistic element that was repeatedly annoying is the direct address to the reader "farang" which continually destroys the mood of the story.
By Brkat (Southeast, USA)
Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep takes another walk through the seedy side of the Bangkok flesh trade in order to solve a gruesome murder. A puzzling question is why the grisly mutilation of the body? The answer is a big surprise and a big wow. Score one for author John Burdett for coming up with a creepy original storyline. Where I was a little disappointed in his ending to "Bangkok 8" I was more than pleased with the conclusion to "Bangkok Tattoo." Won't give anything away here but if you enjoy this genre then you will really enjoy "Bangkok Tattoo."
All of the colorful characters are there - the prostitutes; corrupt police and army generals; Japanese gangsters; CIA agents. It's through Sonchai's eyes that we see Thailand not from a Western perspective but from a Thai's. The lives of the bar girls, Buddhism, and Thai society are brought to light in a way few outsiders understand.
I would recommend reading "Bangkok 8" first since it introduces most of the characters and the settings that continue into "Bangkok Tattoo." However, if you start with the latter you will still be in for a mesmerizing read.
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