Asia Hand

Christopher G. Moore's prize-winning series of Bangkok thrillers featuring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer turned PI, have been praised for their captivating plots, engaging characters, and insight into the steamy Thai capital. In Asia Hand, the second novel in the series, Bangkok is celebrating Chinese New Year when Calvino's revels are cut short. The body of an American, an acquaintance of Calvino's, has been fished out of the lake in Lumpini Park. Around his neck are a string of wooden amulets, the kind upcountry Thais wear to protect themselves from evil spirits. Only rather than saving Hutton, these have killed him.

A freelance cameraman scraping by on the margins, Hutton had photographed something shortly before his death that he thought would make his career. Now the footage--a shocking execution on the Thai/Burmese border--is running repeatedly on CNN, and the rights to Hutton's life story have been sold to a Hollywood producer. But who killed Hutton and why? When Calvino investigates, he collides with a powerful filmmaker and an experienced old Asia hand who knows the terrain as well as our man in Bangkok. It's all Calvino can do to stay alive, and find out who killed his fellow American.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 07/13/2010
ISBN: 9780802170736
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
Award: Shamus Award - Winner

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2010 pg. 49
Booklist 05/01/2010 pg. 15
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2010
Publishers Weekly 05/10/2010 pg. 1