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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
295 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780307263193 (alk. paper), 0307263193 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Sonchai Jitpleecheep--John Burdett's inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul--is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru--and has forty million dollars' worth of heroin for sale