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Introducing Sebastian Damon, a sharp-witted though struggling Boston PI who catches an intriguing case. Linda Watts is a beautiful, talented Southeast Asian refugee with a promising career in finance--or she was, until she turned up dead, the victim of a heroin overdose, in a cheap Bangkok guest house. Her death seemed straightforward to the Thai authorities, but her insurance company isn't buying it. They send Sebastian halfway around the world to investigate--where he finds himself confounded and completely out of place chasing faint leads through the broken, bewildering streets of Thailand's teeming capital. No library descriptions found. |
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For a while Damon runs into lots of dead ends. Then, one day, he actually spies Watts singing in one of Thailand's many (it seems) seamy watering holes. He tracks her down. She admits that her death was "faked" (i.e. not a "good death") so that she could get insurance money to aid her in finding her father. He is alleged to still be living in a mountain village in the remote areas where Thiland, Laos, and Cambodia meet. She had long believed her father to have died. He'd been one of the MIAs from the Viet Nam war and had made a life for himself with one of the hill tribes. Something like that.
So, with the help of Sam Honeyman, an old army buddy of Sebastian's father, who had stayed behind to help hunt for MIAs, and had never left South East Asia, Sebastian and Linda headed off to the village of her birth. Along the way, they have to evade police and ???
It's a pretty interesting book, in part because it describes a part of the world about which we know so little, but a part which had been, and still is, badly damaged by our necessary-only-to-the-war-contractors-and-the-Congress-critters-who-luxuriate-in-their-money military "adventures" in the area back in the 1960s and 1970s. In some ways, pretty grisly.
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