Breathing Water
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AlbakiReads Editorial A Bangkok crime thriller built around a dangerous biography
A Bangkok crime thriller built around a dangerous biography
Set in Bangkok, Breathing Water places American expatriate writer Poke Rafferty in the orbit of Khun Pan, a billionaire whose criminal past and political ambitions make his proposed biography a high-stakes assignment. As competing interests move to suppress or expose Pan’s secrets, the threat expands beyond Rafferty to his wife, adopted daughter, and police-officer friend. The novel connects wealth, political influence, and criminal networks to a personal fight for the safety of Rafferty’s family, including an investigation involving a babyselling ring. Its central tension lies in whether a book can be written—and what it may cost to reveal the life behind it.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Readers of Bangkok-set crime fiction
- Fans of thrillers involving political power and wealthy criminal figures
- Readers interested in family stakes within an espionage-inflected mystery
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Political ambitionCriminal powerFamily protectionSecrets and exposureBangkok
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Book Overview A late-night poker game in Bangkok nets American ex-pat writer Poke Rafferty the "opportunity" to write the biography of Khun Pan, a flam...
A late-night poker game in Bangkok nets American ex-pat writer Poke Rafferty the "opportunity" to write the biography of Khun Pan, a flamboyant, vulgar, self-made billionaire with a criminal past and far-reaching political ambitions. Within hours, Rafferty, his wife, Rose, their adopted daughter, Miaow, and Poke's best friend, honest Bangkok cop Arthit, have become disposable pawns in a brutal power struggle among some of Thailand's richest, most ruthless citizens. There are those who would go to any length to ensure the book is never written and others equally desperate to have Pan's darkest secrets exposed. Suddenly Rafferty is sinking deeper in a perilous sea of treachery and intrigue—and caught up in the inhuman machinations of an Asian babyselling ring—as he searches frantically for the only chance he may have to get everyone he loves out alive.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 368 | Language: English | Publisher: PERENNIAL | ISBN: 0061672254
FormatPaperback
Pages368
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0061672254
EAN9780061672255
PublisherPERENNIAL
Publication Date2010-08-17
EditionReprint
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.6 Pounds
Length8.0 Inches
Width5.2 Inches
Height0.9 Inches
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