Buddha's Money - Tapa blanda

CID investigators Suen+a1o and Bascom have black market duty, roaming the streets of Seoul in search of illegal booze, dollars, and "business women," but by the end of the night they will be up to their guns in ancient treasure, secret burial sites, and the skull of Genghis Khan. Reprint.

w York Times Book Review hailed the return of George Sue±o and his partner, Ernie Bascom, in Martin Lim¾n's electrifying thriller Slicky Boys, proclaiming, "It's great to have these two mavericks back!" Now the pair of investigators for the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is once again walking the wild side of Seoul. In their most explosive case yet, the soldier-cops pursue the key to an ancient source of power and untold wealth--a dangerous odyssey into an exotic shadow world of sensuality, treachery, and evil.

Sue±o and Bascom work the neon alleys of Itaewon--Seoul's supermarket of cheap thrills, where brightly painted girls promise a little piece of paradise in exchange for a few pieces of silver. But in Itaewon, the path to paradise can take some wicked turns....

Herman "the German" Burkowicz retired from the U.S.  Army for a more lucrative career smuggling Korean artifacts. But the price o