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Libro 2 de 17: Vincent Calvino Crime

Moore, Christopher G.

 
9780802170736: Asia Hand: A Vincent Calvino Novel: 4
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ISBN 10: 0802170730 ISBN 13: 9780802170736
Editorial: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010

Sinopsis

Christopher G. Moore’s prize-winning series of Bangkok thrillers featuring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer turned PI, have been praised for their captivating plots, engaging characters, and insight into the steamy Thai capital. In Asia Hand, the second novel in the series, Bangkok is celebrating Chinese New Year when Calvino’s revels are cut short. The body of an American, an acquaintance of Calvino’s, has been fished out of the lake in Lumpini Park. Around his neck are a string of wooden amulets, the kind upcountry Thais wear to protect themselves from evil spirits. Only rather than saving Hutton, these have killed him.

A freelance cameraman scraping by on the margins, Hutton had photographed something shortly before his death that he thought would make his career. Now the footage—a shocking execution on the Thai/Burmese border—is running repeatedly on CNN, and the rights to Hutton’s life story have been sold to a Hollywood producer. But who killed Hutton and why? When Calvino investigates, he collides with a powerful filmmaker and an experienced old Asia hand who knows the terrain as well as our man in Bangkok. It’s all Calvino can do to stay alive, and find out who killed his fellow American.

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Críticas

"Calvino is at once in the finest tradition of the lone private detective and a complete original." --Matt Benyon Rees, author of The Samaritan's Secret "Calvino is a worthy successor to Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer." --The Nation (Bangkok) "The top foreign author focusing on the Land of Smiles, Christopher G. Moore clearly has a firsthand understanding of the expat milieu. . . . Moore is perspicacious." --Bangkok Post "Vincent Calvino [is] Bangkok's most newsworthy private eye. ... [Asia Hand is] dankly atmospheric." --Kirkus Reviews "Underneath Bangkok society is a deeply encrusted demiworld of hope, despair, corruption, and courage that Moore, an American-born writer who has lived there for almost twenty years, paints with maestrolike Dickensian strokes." --Tom Plate, The Seattle Times "Moore's flashy style successfully captures the dizzying contradictions of this vertiginous landscape."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

Reseña del editor

Christopher G. Moore's prize-winning series of Bangkok thrillers featuring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer turned PI, have been praised for their captivating plots, engaging characters, and insight into the steamy Thai capital. In Asia Hand, the second novel in the series, Bangkok is celebrating Chinese New Year when Calvino's revels are cut short. The body of an American, an acquaintance of Calvino's, has been fished out of the lake in Lumpini Park. Around his neck are a string of wooden amulets, the kind upcountry Thais wear to protect themselves from evil spirits. Only rather than saving Hutton, these have killed him. A freelance cameraman scraping by on the margins, Hutton had photographed something shortly before his death that he thought would make his career. Now the footage--a shocking execution on the Thai/Burmese border--is running repeatedly on CNN, and the rights to Hutton's life story have been sold to a Hollywood producer. But who killed Hutton and why? When Calvino investigates, he collides with a powerful filmmaker and an experienced old Asia hand who knows the terrain as well as our man in Bangkok. It's all Calvino can do to stay alive, and find out who killed his fellow American.

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Editorial
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802170730
ISBN 13 
9780802170736
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9781843547921: Asia Hand (Vincent Calvino)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1843547929 ISBN 13:  9781843547921
Editorial: Atlantic Books, 2010
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