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A Haunting Smile
Third in the Land of Smiles Trilogy
Bullets are flying in Bangkok.
Tuttle is upcountry when he hears Snow's BBC live report above the
sound of M-16 fire direct from the urban battlefield near Sanam
Luang. Tuttle, Snow, and Crosby return to HQ - the night-time meeting
place on Sukhumvit Road where angels and devils, locals and foreigners,
and the living and dead arrive after midnight to lease a few hours
of pleasure, to offer up their dreams and desires, and to barter
their souls for instant cash.
Through a collage of short stories,
documentary films, radio reports, journals and letters, Christopher
Moore reveals a host of ghosts, drifters, demimonde, arms dealers,
journalists and the hardcore expats who have entered a world of
massacres, wars, computer tank battles, and midnight secret executions.
He creates a disturbing universe where neither the living nor the
dead escape untouched or unmoved by the events of May 1992.
Heaven
Lake Press (1999), 2nd ed., 320 pp.
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