Bangkok 8 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep Series #1) »

John Burdett is a nonpracticing lawyer who worked in Hong Kong for a British firm until he found his true vocation as a writer. Since then, he has lived in France and Spain and is now back in Hong Kong. He is the author of A Personal History of Thirst and The Last Six Million Seconds.

Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edged-a thriller unlike any other.

Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snake-a charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras.

Two cops-the only two in the city not on the take-arrive too late.

The New York Times

… part "Blade Runner" and part Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles … — Michiku Kakutani