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The Godfather of Kathmandu: by John Burdett.

 

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John Burdett's famed Royal Thai detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is put to the test both as a Buddhist and as a cop as he confronts the most shocking crime of his career.

 

A rich American film director has been murdered. It is an intriguing case, and solving it could lead to a promotion for Sonchai, but, as always, he is far more concerned with the state of his karma than he is with his status in the earthly realm.

To complicate matters his boss, Colonel Vikorn, has decided to make Sonchai his consigliere in a heroin smuggling operation. Sonchai travels to Kathmandu to meet Vikorn's connection Tietsin, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and falls under the sway of this dark and charismatic guru.

 

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The Girls Next Door: A gripping, edge-of-your-seat crime thriller: Volume 1 (Detective Eden Berrisford crime thriller series) Paperback 2016, by Mel Sherratt.

 

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One warm spring evening, five teenagers meet in a local park, only four will come out alive.

 

Six months after the stabbing of sixteen year old Deanna Barker, someone is coming after the teenagers of Stockleigh, as a spate of vicious assaults rocks this small community.

Revenge for Deanna?

Or something more?

 

Detective Eden Berrisford is locked into a race against time to catch the twisted individual behind the attacks, but when her own niece, Jess Mountford, goes missing, the case gets personal.

 

With the kidnapper threatening Jess’s life, can Eden bring back her niece to safety?

Or will the people of Stockleigh be forced to mourn another daughter…?

 

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The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter.

 

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Bob Lee Swagger is back in a thriller fifty years in the making, It’s not even a clue.

It’s a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath.

But it’s enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy and set the stage for one of the most enduring controversies of our time.

 

Swagger begins his slow night stalk through a much traveled landscape.

But he’s asking questions that few have asked before: Why did the third bullet explode?

Why did Lee Harvey Oswald, about to become the most hunted man on earth, risk it all by returning to his rooming house to secure a pistol he easily could have brought with him?

How could a conspiracy that went unpenetrated for fifty years have been thrown together in the two and a half days between the announcement of the president’s route and the assassination itself?

 

As Bob investigates, another voice enters the narrative: knowing, ironic, almost familiar, that of a gifted, Yale educated veteran of the CIA Plans Division. Hugh Meachum has Secrets and the means and the will to keep them buried.

When weighed against his own legacy, Swagger’s life is an insignificant expense, but to blunt the threat, he’ll first have to ambush the sniper.

 

As each man hunts the other across today’s globe and through the thickets of history,

The Third Bullet builds to an explosive climax that will finally prove what Bob Lee Swagger has always known: it’s never too late for justice.

 

[Daveo]

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction 1965 by J. D. Salinger

 

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Reader review.

One of my all time favorite authors who never disappoints me.

This is not my first time reading "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" but it is the first time that I noticed the quotation in the front of the book which explains the title.

I did not experience J. D. Salinger's work until I returned to college as an adult but as soon as I read one of his short stories I was hooked.

I am not a particular fan of the short story but I own most of Salinger's and read them over again every few years.

His stories of the Glass family continue to intrigue me and reading the recent biography of Salinger added to my fondness for these stories. I just sent my copy of "Franny and Zooey" to my grandson. He is fourteen, reads at the college level and it is hard for me to find books that I like and think will interest him.

I highly recommend this book for readers from teenagers to retirees like me.

 

The Author.

Born in New York in 1919, Jerome David Salinger dropped out of several schools before enrolling in a writing class at Columbia University, publishing his first piece ("The Young Folks") in Story magazine.

Soon after, the New Yorker picked up the heralded "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and more pieces followed, including "Slight Rebellion off Madison" in 1941, an early Holden Caulfield story. Following a stint in Europe for World War II, Salinger returned to New York and began work on his signature novel, 1951's "The Catcher in the Rye," an immediate bestseller for its iconoclastic hero and forthright use of profanity.

Following this success, Salinger retreated to his Cornish, New Hampshire, home where he grew increasingly private, eventually erecting a wall around his property and publishing just three more books: "Nine Stories," "Franny and Zooey," "Raise High the Roof Beam, and Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction." Salinger was married twice and had two children.

He died of natural causes on January 27, 2010, in New Hampshire at the age of 91.

 

[Daveo]

Franny and Zooey 1973 by J. D.Salinger

 

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Reader review....

Still the best. When Salinger wrote "The Catcher in the Rye", as well as the short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", he had recognized, almost to perfection, the great trauma of the human condition, as well as honed his ability to articulate it through his damaged heroes who literally "see more" (as in Seymour) than everyone else, and who lead us to an unsettling but truer vision of mortality stripped of its "phoniness".

But we had to wait for "Franny and Zooey" before Salinger had worked out, in his own mind, the optimistic and oh so satisfying remedy, inoculation, or vaccine for that perpetual human condition in the resolution of "Franny and Zooey". Reading any of Salinger's works without also reading "Franny and Zooey" is like reading the Bible without looking at the Gospels.

 

 

[Daveo]

Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes.

 

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In Ben Coes' latest, Eye for an Eye, Dewey Andreas faces the toughest odds of his life as one of China's most powerful men has decided to do whatever he must to take down Dewey and inflicts a horrifying loss.

 

When Dewey Andreas uncovers the identity of a mole embedded at a high level in Israel's Mossad, it triggers a larger, more dangerous plot.

The mole was the most important asset of Chinese Intelligence, and Fao Bhang, head of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), responds to the discovery and brutal elimination of the mole, by immediately placing a kill order on the man responsible, Dewey Andreas.

 

Dewey is tracked to Argentina, where he is on vacation with his fiancée, Jessica Tanzer, a U.S. National Security Advisor.

A top level kill team is sent in quickly and quietly, but their attack fails to take out Dewey.

The collateral damage, however, is both horrifying and deeply personal.

With nothing left to lose, Andreas is determined to have his revenge. Once he learns who is probably behind the attack and why they are after him, Dewey goes rogue, using all of his assets and skills to launch a counterattack.

Andreas must now face the full weight and might of the MSS, Chinese Intelligence, and the formidable Fao Bhang, if he's to achieve his one last goal: revenge on a biblical scale, no matter the odds or the armies that he will have to fight his way through. Andreas, former Army Ranger and Delta, is a man of great skills and cunning.

His opponent, Fao Bhang, is ruthless, determined, and with no limit to the assets at his disposal.

 

In this conflict, there are only two possible outcomes. And only one Dewey Andreas.

 

[Daveo]

The Red Dahlia by Lynda La Plante.

 

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Detective Anna Travis is working on a murder case that has created a media frenzy.

The victim, Louise Pennel, a 24-year-old girl, was last seen in a London night club.

Her body was found dumped by the River Thames.

Anna must summon all her strength and guile to hunt down this sadistic killer.

 

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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.

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In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. 
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug runners and small towns have become free fire zones.

One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men.
A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell can contain.

As Moss tries to evade his pursuers in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. 
No Country for Old Men is a triumph.

 

 

 

[Daveo]

The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow.

 

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In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas.

The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant.

In E. L. Doctorow’s hands the great march becomes a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.

 

[Daveo]

Left Foot in the Grave by Garry Nelson..

 

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Garry Nelson’s diary of the highs and lows of a struggling third division football league club is an authentic and refreshingly vivid expose of English professional football, with an insight into the problems and day to day anxieties of players, backroom staff and management alike.

 

From the temperamental mini-star through to the no hoper reject, from early season cheer to end of season gloom, from a glorious triumph to a struggle to put eleven players on the field, this portrayal of the life and times of Torquay United FC captures the essence of what football is all about.

 

The book also takes in the wider issues, such as the funding of soccer, FIFA and the British transfer system.

Through it all, the former Torquay United player coach never fails to illuminate his words with sharp comparisons and ironic contrasts that are part and parcel of the game in this country.

 

Following on from his first book, the bestselling Left Foot Forward, Garry Nelson has established himself as an excellent writer and a shrewd and thoughtful analysis of football.

 

[Daveo]

Unfinished Portrait by Agatha Christie.

 

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A newly reissued edition of Agatha Christie 'Mary Westmacott' novel, a Crime of the Heart novel about a woman on the verge of suicide.

'In Celia we have more nearly than anywhere else a portrait of Agatha.'

Max Mallowan Bereft of the three people she has held most dear her mother, her husband and her daughter, Celia is on the verge of suicide.

Then one night on an exotic island she meets Larraby, a successful portrait painter, and through a long night of talk reveals how she is afraid to commit herself to a second chance of happiness with another person, yet is not brave enough to face life alone.

Can Larraby help Celia come to terms with the past or will they part, her outcome still uncertain?

 

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Wilt In Nowhere: by Tom Sharpe.

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When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing, that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two rotund Americans with more money than sense.

What better way to escape and find equilibrium then to embark on a walking tour?

Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill judged bottle of whiskey...

 

Meanwhile, Eva finds her plans to inherit Joan and Wally's fortune slipping away faster than her sanity, thanks to a combination of sinister teenage quadruplets with foul mouths, and her unexpected role as lead suspect in a drug trafficking plot.

 

Outrageous, darkly comic, and packed with calamity on top of calamity, Tom Sharpe's latest episode of Wilt's misadventures is a razor sharp farce that will delight fans both old and new.

 

 

[Daveo]

Very popular and well stocked in the bookshop James Patterson.

From 60 baht

Edited February 6, 2017 by Daveo

[Daveo]

Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt 1- 6 )
by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

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First volume in a dramatic and colourful new fantasy series, ‘Shadows of the Apt’, about the fight for survival against a menacingly regimented empire Seventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of conquest. 
Since then he has preached vainly against this threat in his home city of Collegium, but now the Empire is on the march, with its spies and its armies everywhere, and the Lowlands lie directly in its path. All the while, Stenwold has been training youthful agents to fight the Wasp advance, and the latest recruits include his niece, Che, and his mysterious ward, Tynisa. When his home is violently attacked, he is forced to send them ahead of him and, hotly pursued, they fly by airship to Helleron, the first city in line for the latest Wasp invasion.
Stenwold and Che are Beetle kinden, one of many human races that take their powers and inspiration each from a totem insect, but he also has allies of many breeds: Mantis, Spider, Ant, with their own particular skills. 
Foremost is the deadly Mantis kinden warrior, Tisamon, but other very unlikely allies also join the cause. 
As things go from bad to worse amid escalating dangers, Stenwold learns that the Wasps intend to use the newly completed railroad between Helleron and Collegium to launch a lightning strike into the heart of the Lowlands.
Then he gathers all of his agents to force a final showdown in the engine yard . . . Adrian Tchaikovsky discusses Shadows of the Apt About The Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire.
He now lives in Leeds. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage fighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son. Catch up with Adrian at www.shadowsoftheapt.com for further information about both himself and the insect-kinden, together with bonus material including short stories and artwork.

 

[Daveo]

Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America by Ioan Grillo.

 

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In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels.

In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit men to gun down forty one police officers and prison guards in two days.

In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies.

 

A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong arming governments, and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, guns, and humans.

What they do affects you now, from the gas in your car, to the gold in your jewelry, to the tens of thousands of Latin Americans calling for refugee status in the U.S.

Gangster Warlords is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central and South America and the Caribbean, regions largely abandoned by the U.S. after the Cold War.

Author of the critically acclaimed El Narco, Ioan Grillo has covered Latin America since 2001 and gained access to every level of the cartel chain of command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas.

Moving between militia controlled ghettos and the halls of top policy makers, Grillo provides a disturbing new understanding of a war that has spiraled out of control, one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now.

 

[Daveo]

Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander #1) by Henning Mankell,

 

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One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call-out.

When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason.

The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign.

When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes racial hatred.

 

Kurt Wallander's life is a shambles: his wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, and even his ageing father barely tolerates him.

He works tirelessly, eats badly, and drinks his nights away in a lonely, neglected flat.

But now, with winter tightening and his activities being monitored by a tough minded district attorney, Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle against time and against mounting racial hatred.

 

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked

 

[Daveo]

The Death of Eli Gold by David Baddiel.

 

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This novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically praised The Secret Purposes.

 

In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying.

Witnessing his death are his precocious 8 year old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety ridden 44 year old son from his third marriage, and his 89-year-old first wife, watching on TV from a care home in London.

And also, secretly, his fourth wife's fundamentalist Mormon brother, who has never got over his sister's death in a suicide pact with Eli, a suicide pact that Eli survived.

 

The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, fame, and the idea, the dying idea, of The Great Man.

 

[Daveo]

Conclave by Robert Harris.

 

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The Pope is dead.

 

Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election.

 

They are holy men.

But they have ambition.

And they have rivals.

 

Over the next seventy two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.

 

[Daveo]

Callisto by Lin Carter.

 

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Jon Dark is a helicopter pilot for the International Red Cross, flying numerous rescue missions...until the day his helicopter crashes in the Cambodian jungles.

Cut off from American troops, he searches for a way out, only to find a lost city and the gateway to another world.

Stepping through the portal, he arrives on Callisto­ a savage, hostile world terrorized by insect-men.

Here Jon finds not only chilling dangers awaiting him, but also the love of a beautiful princess.

 

This part of our extensive Science Fiction section.

 

[Daveo]

Deadline (Virgil Flowers #8) by John Sandford.

 

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In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end.

The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues..... “Issues” is correct.

The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter, the vote is four to one in favor.

 

Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning into something much bigger and uglier, a team of dognappers supplying medical labs, when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport.

A murdered body has been found and the victim is a local reporter.

 

[Daveo]

Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Imperative by Eric Van Lustbader.

 

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The man Jason Bourne fishes out of the freezing sea is near death, half drowned and bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound.

He awakens with no memory of who he is or why he was shot and Bourne is eerily reminded of his own amnesia.

Then Bourne discovers that the Mossad agent named Rebeka is so determined to find this injured man that she has gone off the grid, cut her ties to her agency, and is now being stalked by Mossad's most feared killer.

Do the answers to these mysteries lie back in southeast Lebanon, in a secret encampment to which Bourne and Rebeka escaped following a firefight weeks ago?

The complex trail links to the mission given to Treadstone directors Peter Marks and Soraya Moore: find the semi mythic terrorist assassin known as Nicodemo.

In the course of Bourne's desperate, deadly search for a secret that will alter the future of the entire world, he will experience both triumph and loss, and his life will never be the same.

Now everything turns on the amnesiac.

Bourne must learn his identity and purpose before both he and Rebeka are killed.

From Stockholm to Washington, D.C., from Mexico City to Beijing, the web of lies and betrayals extends into a worldwide conspiracy of monumental proportions.

We have every Bourne series books in stock @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop Pattaya.

 

[Daveo]

Lucky Child by Loung Ung.

 

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In this book, Luong describes, with candour and grace, what it is like to survive in a new culture while overcoming the memories of genocide and the deep scars of war.

Luong also re creates Chou's life as a genocide survivor left behind in rural Cambodia and recounts her heartfelt reunion with Chou fifteen years after they last saw each other.

 

Part of our extensive was section as well as many books involved in the Vietnam War.

 

 

[Daveo]

The After Death Experience: by Ian Wilson.

 

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Reader review

I found it to be one of the most thoughtful examinations of the possibility of an afterlife I've come across, and easy for a lay person to understand.

A highly intelligent, very thoughtful look at a complex subject, and to his great credit, the author does not push his own personal religious viewpoint.

If you are interested in this subject I highly recommend you obtain a copy.

 

[Daveo]

The City by Dean Koontz.

 

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Dean Koontz is at the peak of his storytelling powers with this major new novel, a rich, multi-layered story that moves back and forth across decades and generations as a gifted musician relates the ‘terrible and wonderful’ events that began in his city in 1967, when he was ten.

 

THIS IS THE STORY OF A BOY AND A CITY…

 

Jonah Kirk’s childhood has been punctuated by extraordinary moments, like the time a generous stranger helped him realize his dream of learning the piano.

Nothing is more important to him than his family and friends, and the electrifying power of music.

 

But now Jonah has a terrifying secret.

And it sets him on a collision course with a group of dangerous people who will change his life forever.

 

For one bright morning, a single earth shattering event will show Jonah that in his city, good is entwined with malice, and sometimes the dark side of humanity triumphs.

But it will also teach him that courage and honour are found in the most unexpected places, and the way forward lies buried deep inside the heart.

 

If he can just survive to find it…

Edited February 8, 2017 by Daveo

[Daveo]

The Death Collectors by J. A. Kerley.

 

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A terrifying new serial killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man.

 

Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp's ‘Art of the Final Moment’ remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection.

Hexcamp's portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band of acolytes and half a dozen victims, each of whom was slowly tortured to death so that their final agonies could be distilled into art.

 

When tiny scraps of Hexcamp's ‘art’ begin appearing at murder scenes alongside gruesomely displayed corpses, Detective Carson Ryder and his partner Harry Nautilus must go back three decades in search of answers.

 

Meanwhile an auction has been announced and the death collectors are gathering.

These wealthy connoisseurs of serial-killer memorabilia will pay millions to acquire Hexcamp's art, unless Carson and Harry can beat them in their quest for the anti-grail.