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Book SynopsisBangkok, rich in history and spirituality, crowded with temples, markets and canals, is also a city shrouded in shadows. Polluted, corrupt, infamous as the sex capital of the world, it is a place where wealth, poverty and unimaginable evil walk hand in hand.
In District 8, the underbelly of Bangkok''s crime world, a dramatically mutilated body is found in a hotel bedroom. It looks bad: the corpse - who''s been flayed - is CIA. And it gets worse when the self-confessed murderer is the beautiful Chanya - the best ''working girl'' at The Old Man''s Club, a brothel owned jointly by Sonchai''s mother and his boss, Police Colonel Vikorn. Alerted by Sonchai, Vikorn quickly concocts a cover-up that involves an Al-Qaeda terrorist cell located in a southern Thai border-town where, since 9/11, the CIA has also had a covert presence.
So far so good: but the truth will be harder to come by, and it will require Sonchai to find an ever more delicate balance between his ambition (west
