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John Burdett

    24 luglio 1951

    John Burdett è un romanziere la cui voce letteraria è plasmata dalle sue esperienze di vita e lavoro in diverse località asiatiche. Le sue narrazioni esplorano spesso l'intersezione tra complessità culturali e natura umana, presentate con uno stile acuto e osservativo. La scrittura di Burdett è celebrata per il suo commento perspicace e la sua capacità di trasportare i lettori in ambientazioni rese vividamente.

    John Burdett
    The godfather of Kathmandu
    Bangkok Tattoo, English edition
    Bangkok Eight
    The Last Six Million Seconds
    Bangkok Haunts
    Vulture Peak
    • 2021

      Der buddhistische Mönch

      Kriminalroman. Jitpleecheep ermittelt in Bangkok (3)

      Als Polizist im berüchtigten achten Bezirk von Bangkok hat Sonchai Jitpleecheep schon viel gesehen. Kein Verbrechen aber hat ihn je an der menschlichen Spezies zweifeln lassen. Doch Sonchai spürt, dass er in diesem Augenblick ein solches Verbrechen mit ansehen muss: Im abgedunkelten Raum der Polizeistation läuft ein Snuff-Movie. Und die junge Frau, die in diesem mörderischen Film vor seinen Augen getötet wird, ist niemand anderes als Damrong, die begehrteste Prostituierte Bangkoks – und Sonchais ehemalige Geliebte. Auf der Suche nach ihren Mördern muss er sich Gegnern stellen, die weitaus größer sind, als er erwartet hat.

      Der buddhistische Mönch
    • 2020

      Die Prostituierte Chanya steht blutverschmiert vor dem Ermittler Sonchai Jitpleecheep und glaubt, einen Mord begangen zu haben. Ein toter Amerikaner, ihr Ex-Freund und CIA-Mitarbeiter, liegt in ihrem Bett. Sonchai und sein Vorgesetzter sind skeptisch und suchen schnell einen Schuldigen, während die CIA einen Terrorakt vermutet.

      Bangkok Tattoo. Kriminalroman. Jitpleecheep ermittelt in Bangkok
    • 2012

      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 host of unwitting players, including an aging rock star wearing out his second liver, and his quarry, twin Chinese queenpins of the international body-parts trade known as the Vultures. Meanwhile, there are rumors at home that Sonchai’s wife is having an affair. Although he has always known about her disreputable past, this is something else entirely. Confronting the rumors—and controlling his jealousy—while embroiled in the most contentious case of his career may well be more than this detective’s Buddhist soul can handle.

      Vulture Peak
    • 2010

      Sonchai Jitpleecheep--Burdett's inimitable Thai police detective--is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Sonchai is more interested in finding Nirvana than in solving murders, in Burdett's most inventive, darkly comic novel yet.

      The godfather of Kathmandu
    • 2008

      Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkok's crime-riddled District 8. But the terrifying snuff movie he's been sent anonymously is something else: the person who dies is Damrong, the beautiful woman he once loved and whom he still dreams about.

      Bangkok Haunts
    • 2006

      When the mutilated body of a CIA agent is discovered in District 8 and the killer appears to be a local working girl, Sonchai searches for the truth amid a cover-up orchestrated by his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn.

      Bangkok Tattoo, English edition