Vulture Peak

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-47429-2 (0-307-47429-1)

August 21, 2012 | $17.95

Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, but now he is heading out of his comfort zone. Way out. Assigned to the highest-profile case in all Thailand, he is tasked with ending international human-organ trafficking. His hunt will lead him across five countries and will draw in a...

The Last Six Million Seconds

eBook | 386 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-94861-8 (0-307-94861-7)

May 29, 2012 | $9.99



It is April 1997, and all of Hong Kong is counting down to July 1, when Britain will hand over rule of the country to China. Public anxiety about the transfer of power is running high, but “Charlie” Chan Siu-kai’s biggest concern is a gruesome triple murder case, with no solid...

The Last Six Million Seconds

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-74529-3 (0-307-74529-5)

May 29, 2012 | $18.00



It is April 1997, and all of Hong Kong is counting down to July 1, when Britain will hand over rule of the country to China. Public anxiety about the transfer of power is running high, but “Charlie” Chan Siu-kai’s biggest concern is a gruesome triple murder case, with no solid...

Vulture Peak

Hardcover | 304 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-27267-6 (0-307-27267-2)

January 10, 2012 | $29.00



Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact—more or less—despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok...

Vulture Peak

eBook | 304 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-59658-1 (0-307-59658-3)

January 10, 2012 | $12.99



Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact—more or less—despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok...

The Godfather of Kathmandu

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-1-4000-9707-4 (1-4000-9707-X)

April 19, 2011 | $16.95

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...

The Godfather of Kathmandu

eBook | 320 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
978-0-307-27294-2 (0-307-27294-X)

January 12, 2010 | $12.99



Sonchai Jitpleecheep—John Burdett’s inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul—is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama...

Bangkok Haunts

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-4000-9706-7 (1-4000-9706-1)

June 10, 2008 | $18.95



Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel.

Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the snuff film he's just been sent anonymously. Furiously fast-paced and...

Bangkok Haunts

eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-26695-8 (0-307-26695-8)

June 5, 2007 | $12.99



Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel.

Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the snuff film he's just been sent anonymously. Furiously fast-paced and...

Bangkok Tattoo

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-4000-3291-4 (1-4000-3291-1)

July 11, 2006 | $18.95



Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller.

A farang–a foreigner–has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchai’s mother and his boss. The dead man was a CIA agent. To make matters worse, the apparent culprit is...

Bangkok Tattoo

Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7393-2027-3 (0-7393-2027-0)

May 17, 2005 | $17.95



Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller.

A farang–a foreigner–has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchai’s mother and his boss. The dead man was a CIA agent. To make matters worse, the apparent culprit is...

Bangkok Tattoo

eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-4000-4490-0 (1-4000-4490-1)

May 10, 2005 | $12.99



Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller.

A farang–a foreigner–has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchai’s mother and his boss. The dead man was a CIA agent. To make matters worse, the apparent culprit is...

Bangkok 8

Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-4000-3290-7 (1-4000-3290-3)

July 13, 2004 | $18.00



A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities.

Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the...

Bangkok 8

Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7393-0388-7 (0-7393-0388-0)

June 3, 2003 | $21.00



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. Minutes later, only one...

Bangkok 8

eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-1-4000-4091-9 (1-4000-4091-4)

June 3, 2003 | $12.99



A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities.

Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the...