Bob Color Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 I am looking for books that use Thailand as place of handeling. I just read Secret Agent by Francine Mathews. Great book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donim Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Ian Fleming - The man with the golden gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donim Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 John Burdett - The Bangkok Asset 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donim Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Books by Kulap Saipradit, but more fiction. Anyway John Burdett wrote a few thrillers with Thailand as playground and their characters are Thai too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Puwa Posted March 9, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2019 John LeCarre's "The Honourable Schoolboy" takes place in part in Thailand in the 1970s. Excellent novel. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 War & piece or the bible great non med get to sleep helpers. ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topt Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballpoint Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Falk by Joseph Conrad. Not a thriller, but a good read set in old Bangkok. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bundooman Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 '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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seabear Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) 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. Edited March 10, 2019 by seabear 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sawadee1947 Posted March 10, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 10, 2019 Is it not enough to live in Thailand? Every day here is a thriller. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brunolem Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 The man with the golden watches. Not sure it's been published yet, there could be a few chapters left to be written... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauGR1 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 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". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwill Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epidemiologist Dave Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Asian Love & Sadness Trilogy by David Spencer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emptypockets Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortean1 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) 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 Edited March 10, 2019 by Fortean1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emptypockets Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) multiple posts for some reason Edited March 10, 2019 by emptypockets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Bangkok Delusions by Zach J BrodskySent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Tiger Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 "The Curse of the White Tiger" by Sean O'Hara (that's me!) available on Amazon Kindle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen tracy Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 'Bangkok 8' by John Burdett and 'Private Dancer' by Stephen Leather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Catton Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Angela Savage, author of the following: Behind the Night Bazaar. The Dying Beach. The Half Child. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magdalen Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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