I am looking for books that use Thailand as place of handeling. I just read Secret Agent by Francine Mathews. Great book.

Ian Fleming - The man with the golden gun

John Burdett - The Bangkok Asset

Books by Kulap Saipradit, but more fiction.

Anyway John Burdett wrote a few thrillers with Thailand as playground and their characters are Thai too.

John LeCarre's "The Honourable Schoolboy" takes place in part in Thailand in the 1970s. Excellent novel.

War & piece or the bible great non med get to sleep helpers. ????

Just do variations on a search and you will come up with lots of options of which one such list is here -

https://www.expatfocus.com/c/aid=5076/articles/thailand/expat-crime-fiction-in-bangkok-recommended-reads/

 

Spirit House as mentioned is very good.

Falk by Joseph Conrad.  Not a thriller, but a good read set in old Bangkok. 

'The Bangkok Secret' a novel by Anthony Gray/Grey. Available Amazon on Kindle as well.

Deals with a subject 100% forbidden on this forum.

Gray also wrote, 'Saigon' and 'The Chinese Assassin'

He was imprisoned for two years in Peking during the Mao revolution and wrote a book called, 'Peking'

Excellent reads - all of them if you are interested.

Stephen Leather:  Bangkok Bob

Christopher G. Moore:  A Killing Smile

Phra Peter Pannapadipo: Phra Farang

Collin Piprell:  Kicking Dogs, Bangkok Knights

Hans Morgenthaler: Matahari

Relation de L'ambassade de M. le Chevalier de Chaumont à la cour du roi de Siam, (1685 !)

Journal du voyage de Siam fait par M. L'abbé de Choisy. (1685 !)

Histoire de M. Constance, Premier Ministre du roi de Siam.

 

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Is it not enough to live in Thailand? 

Every day here is a thriller. 

The man with the golden watches. 

 

Not sure it's been published yet, there could be a few chapters left to be written... 

25 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

Is it not enough to live in Thailand? 

Every day here is a thriller. 

I've always found intriguing, compelling and a bit ominous the assonance between "tigers" and "Thai girls".

Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett

 

Asian Love & Sadness Trilogy by David Spencer.

Read any thread on Thaivisa forum by a new poster involving a bar girl he has just met. Always entertaining and quite often with a romantic comedy thriller feel about it

Dean Barrett writes novels; none of which I've read as I'm not a nonfiction reader.  See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Barrett

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multiple posts for some reason 

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Bangkok Delusions by Zach J Brodsky



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"The Curse of the White Tiger" by Sean O'Hara (that's me!) available on Amazon Kindle.

'Bangkok 8' by John Burdett and 'Private Dancer' by Stephen Leather. 

Angela Savage, author of the following:

Behind the Night Bazaar.

The Dying Beach.

The Half Child.

 

This is a book about Police and corruption in Myanmar, but numerous analogies with Thailand, and beautifully written:

 

'Contagion of the Soul' by Win Lwin