In
Crackdown visual art becomes a powerful take down tool
to push back against the oligarchs. People adjust to the surveillance
state and its agents who are emergent forces. Post-coup Thailand
is the setting as high tech competes with traditional power
in a battle for hearts and minds. It is a noir landscape where
Calvino finds himself ambushed as casualties from this battle
leave behind a mystery or two. Calvino enters a world of ancient
maps, political graffiti, student protestors and murder. The
finger points at Calvino as the killer. He searches for allies
who will help him prove his innocence.
Praise
“Crackdown
is a superb novel and a wonderful read.”
—The
Life Style Detective
“This
carefully crafted politically-aware crime novel ... set in Bangkok
during post-coup military rule ... is a book of symbols. [Crackdown]
is a book of dusty maps and edgy political graffiti. A book
of warnings, predictions; a well plotted social document.”
—James Newman, Author of the Joe Dylan Private Investigator
Noir Crime Series
“Christopher
G. Moore’s freewheeling intelligence roams over the manifold
aspects of modern life, from the 2014 coup to high-tech crime
surveillance, map-making, and radical street art. The sum total
infuses his latest novel, Crackdown, with a richer palette of
colors than the endless black and grainy bleakness of so many
other noir tales.”
—Jim Algie, Bangkok 101
“One
reason that the Vinnie Calvino series is so popular is that
the characters are described in such detail that the reader
can almost ‘see’ them, and then by placing these
characters in real life places ... it all adds to the realism.
After all the previous Calvino novels I have read, I can visualize
Calvino, scars and all. He is a PI who bleeds, physically and
emotionally.”
—Pattaya
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