Asia Hand
Second in the Vincent Calvino P.I. Series
Bangkok - the Year of the Monkey.
Private investigator Vincent ("Vinee") Calvino's New Year
celebration ends when Jerry Hutton, wearing a necklace of wooden
penises, is pulled dead from Lumpini Park Lake. Cable TV shows dramatic
footage of several Burmese soldiers on the Thai border executing
students in cold blood. Hutton was the cameraman.
Calvino probes the truth behind
Hutton's job with an LA film production company in Bangkok. They
are shooting a feature titled Lucky Charms. When Calvino confronts
the director about Hutton's role in the production he hits a wall
of silence.
On the other side of that wall,
Calvino and Lt. Col. Pratt discover an elite film unit of old Asia
Hands with important Bangkok connections. 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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