Paying Back Jack

By Christopher G Moore

When Calvino is hired by a retired Thai general to deal with a corrupt and deadbeat tenant, he almost immediately has to evade an assassination attempt. Figuring that it might be best to lay low for a while, Calvino heads for the beach. But trouble only follows him there, as a beautiful young woman falls to her death from the hotel room above his.

Back in Bangkok, Calvino is hired to tail a politician running for election. His investigation draws him into a shady world of private contractors, UN officials, and city politics. As he closes in on his target, his run of bad luck brings him ever closer to danger until Calvino realises he could be the target himself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Release date: Dec 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9780857892492

Christopher G Moore

Christopher G. Moore is a Canadian citizen and formerly taught law at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of nine novels featuring Vincent Calvino, and the winner of the Deutscher Krimi Preis, Germany's most prestigious award for crime fiction. He has lived in Bangkok since 1988. Both The Risk of Infidelity Index and Spirt House are published by Atlantic.

Reviews for Paying Back Jack

[chorn369 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This writer--and this book--go in the category of ex-pats who think they're tough because they live in a dirty, dangerous third world city. They can't help infusing the story with their own macho fantasies and predilections--which may just be Walter Mitty fantasies because they all can't be former Navy Seals. Ultimately, their prose is tiresome and I certainly couldn't stomach this entry in the genre.