Bangkok Noir - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6167503044 ISBN 13: 9786167503042

Publisher: Asia Document Bureau Ltd., 2011

Synopsis

Bangkok is one of the great cities in the world, but unlike other great metropolises it has no noir tales to its name. Bangkok Noir puts that to right. In this first ever noir anthology of Bangkok, twelve seasoned and internationally known-Thai and Western-writers have come together to make a powerful collection of crime fiction short stories that portray the dark side of this Asian metropolis where the lives of most citizens seem as far away from heaven as its Thai name Krungthep is distant from its meaning-City of Angels. In Bangkok Noir, the twelve short stories of various shades of black involve gangsters and hitmen, love and betrayal, the supernatural, the possessed and the dispossessed, and the far distant future. Titles in this collection include: John Burdett's Gone East, Stephen Leather's Inspector Zhang and the Dead Thai Gangster, Tew Bunnag's The Mistress Wants Her Freedom, Colin Cotterill's Halfhead, Pico Iyer's Thousand and One Nights, and Christopher G. Moore's Dolphin Inc.

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Review

"The stories, about crooks, cops, gangsters, hit-men, bar girls, shaman and street vendors, show the underbelly of Bangkok. It isn't pretty, but as the first of its kind, Bangkok Noir is a good read."
-- Bangkok Post

"If you enjoy thrillers, especially 'noir' thrillers, this is the book for you. A dozen of the best authors of the genre all in one book."--Lang Reid, Pattaya Mail

About this edition

• Publisher: Asia Document Bureau Ltd.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 6167503044
• ISBN 13: 9786167503042
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Moore Christopher G.