Spirit House
First in the Vincent Calvino P.I. Series
Spirit House pulls you into a multinational
demimonde that gets more real that the other half. Vincent ("Vinee")
Calvino, ex-New Yorker, has a "Calvino's law" on tap for
the ins and outs of the underbelly of life and sudden death. Calvino
ranks in the grand tradition of private investigators, yet remains
a winner. The riverboat shootout is a classic. Over the hard clip
of action presides the mystic atmosphere of a Bangkok dotted with
spirit houses.
Calvino searches for the killer of an English
expat journalists. Lt. Col. "Pratt" of the Thai police
department believes the killer is a teenage drug addict who has
already confessed to the murder. But Calvino uncovers evidence of
a larger network of crime -- drugs and murder -- spanning from Patpong,
to the slums of Klong Toey, and reaching into the expat financial
and business community.
As the death toll mounts, the reversals
and twists take Calvino and Pratt deep into a world closed to outsiders;
a place where the gods of envy and sex dance across a bridge connecting
the East and West.
First edition (1992)
/ Current edition (1999) Heaven Lake Press, 280 pp.
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