The cowboy’s back on Soi Cowboy

By Paul Dorsey 
The Sunday Nation

 

 

Farang are being murdered in a most unsavoury way. Cue the contemplative harmonica music and settle in for a hilarious Russian folk tale

 

American writer Steve Rosse, whose evocative, amusing and poignant column on the expatriate life, The Rock, once graced these pages, makes a rain-soaked dash into the noir crime-mystery genre with the delightful novella “Bangkok Buckaroo”.

It’s every bit as cornpone cowboy as the title suggests, even if the Texan protagonist in his Stetson and bull-riding boots is named Joe DiMaggio. 

 

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Steve Rosse ? Isn,t he the author of whom Lois Lamour once said "Who ?"

I used to enjoy his columns years ago, living in Phuket probably messed up his head though.. I remember 2 episodes, in one he described waking up to find a lady he had spent the night with had left a perfectly formed turd on his chest before she departed. I can't remember what he had done to deserve that.

In the second incident he was on a bus in Phuket and got upset with some Thais giggling and describing a farang in the seat in front of them as sweating like a pig. he felt it was unfair as the weather was so hot and the bus was not air conditioned. He also used to complain his Thai wife's relatives would speak the southern dialect so he couldn't follow the conversation, a touch of paranoia perhaps?