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Winner of 2004 German
Critics Award for International Crime Fiction
In
the early 1990s, at the end of the devastating civil
war UN peacekeeping forces try to keep the lid on the
violence. Gunfire can still be heard nightly in Phnom
Penh, where Vietnamese prostitutes try to hook UN peacekeepers
from the balcony of the Lido Bar.
Calvino
traces leads on a missing farang from Bangkok to war-torn
Cambodia, through the Russian market, hospitals, nightclubs,
news briefings, and UNTAC Headquarters. Calvino’s
buddy, Colonel Pratt, knows something that Calvino does
not: the missing man is connected with the jewels stolen
from the Saudi royal family. Calvino quickly finds out
that he is not the only one looking for the missing
farang.
First
edition (1994) / Current edition (2005) Heaven Lake
Press, 287 pp
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