The Queen of Patpong: A Poke Rafferty Thriller - Rilegato

Hallinan, Timothy

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ISBN 10: 0061672262 ISBN 13: 9780061672262

Casa editrice: William Morrow & Co, 2010

Riassunto

The quiet Bangkok family life of American travel-writer Poke Rafferty, wife Rose and daughter Miaow, is threatened when a man from Rose s past forces Poke to uncover the whole truth about his wife s former life in a red-light district. 20,000 first printing.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Timothy Hallinan is the author of nine widely praised books: eight novels—including the Bangkok thrillers featuring Poke Rafferty—and a work of nonfiction. Along with his wife, Munyin Choy, he divides his time equally between Los Angeles, California, and Southeast 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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: William Morrow & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0061672262
• ISBN 13: 9780061672262
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 312
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile