Bangkok Tattoo

Written by John Burdett

Narrated by Paul Boehmer

In District 8, the underbelly of Bangkok's crime world, a mutilated body is found in a hotel bedroom. It looks bad: the corpse is CIA. And it gets worse for Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep when the murderer appears to be the most successful 'working girl' at The Old Man's Club, a brothel owned jointly by Sonchai's mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves an Al Qaeda terrorist cell - a ploy he believes will prove irresistible to the American spy agency. The bizarre truth that is eventually uncovered - with a little help from the dead - may be too challenging even for the wily colonel, as Sonchai is forced to run the gamut of Bangkok's drug-dealers, prostitutes, bad cops, corrupt military generals, and the pitfalls of his own melting heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: W. F. Howes Audio
• Release date: Aug 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781846320323

Reviews for Bangkok Tattoo

[jkdavies · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

After the cliffhanger ending of Scales of Gold, the story picks up again; Gelis has disappeared, apparently pregnant with Simon's (Nicholas's arch enemy and father) child. Nicholas spends time in Scotland, nurturing plans for the future, and plans to disadvantage, taking care also to sleep with every woman Simon has had recently. A parrot provides a clue to the missing gold from the Africa trip, and the rivalry with the Vatachino, linked to the Adorne family also grows. We are introduced to Katelijne Sersanders, who attaches herself to the Adorne pildrimage to Sinai, and Nicholas also goes (via the Tyrol, where he discovers he can divine) to Egypt.
Finally, Nicholas and Gelis meet again, on top of Mount Sinai, where it is confirmed that she did have a child. Finally, everyone arrives back in Venice, in Carnival season, and the scene is set for Nicholas to finally meet the child; and promptly disappears into the night.
There is a sense of plots starting to come together in this book, although there are still a hell of a lot of red herrings being trailed.