Author: Timothy Hallinan Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Crime Culture: Asia
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For American travel writer Poke Rafferty, life finally seems to hold some semblance of stability. He and his longtime love, Rose, have gone through with their much-deferred marriage ceremony, their adopted daughter, Miaow, a former street child, has become a loving--if sometimes difficult--part of the family, and the three of them live in relative comfort thanks to Rose's housekeeping business and Rafferty's writing.
Then a nightmare figure from Rose's time as a Patpong dancer barges into their world, shattering the peace they've worked so hard to obtain. His appearance threatens everything they cherish: their love, their home . . . their very lives. As a foreigner who's seen some of the worst Bangkok has to offer and survived confrontations with Thailand's most powerful and dangerous elements, Rafferty feels equal to most of the challenges Bangkok can throw at him. But now his only hope is to discover the whole truth of Rose's past--a journey down the dark and twisting road that turned a shy, awkward village teenager into the queen of Asia's most lurid red-light street: Patpong Road. And just when Rafferty thought life was looking good, reality comes crashing in as he learns that the secrets from Rose's former life are almost impossible to accept--and even harder to survive.
The Queen of Patpong is a terrifying, heart-breaking, electrifying story of peril, love, and, ultimately, redemption in modern-day Thailand--and the most ambitious, affecting novel yet from thriller master Timothy Hallinan.
This book is part of the "Poke Rafferty Mystery" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "For the Dead" First published in 2014 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Fear Artist" First published in 2012 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Breathing Water" First published in 2009 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Fourth Watcher" First published in 2008 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Fools' River" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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