Bangkok—the
Year of the Monkey. Calvino’s Chinese New Year
celebration is interrupted by a call to Lumpini Park
Lake, where Thai cops have just fished the body of a
farang cameraman. CNN is running dramatic footage of
several Burmese soldiers on the Thai border executing
students.
Calvino
follows the trail of the dead man to a feature film
crew where he hits the wall of silence. On the other
side of that wall, Calvino and Colonel Pratt discover
and elite film unit of old Asia hands with connections
to influential people in Southeast Asia. They find themselves
matched against a set of farangs conditioned for urban
survival and willing to go for a knock-out punch.
First edition
(1992) / Current edition (2000) Heaven Lake Press, 277
pp.
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