Comfort Zone

In Comfort Zone, the fourth installment of Christopher G. Moore's acclaimed Vincent Calvino Crime Series, Bangkok's backstreets and post-war Vietnam's shadows converge in a gripping tale of corruption, betrayal, and moral decay.Private investigator Vincent Calvino-a hardboiled ex-lawyer turned detective-takes on a case for an ex-Special Forces veteran whose business partner has turned up dead. As Calvino follows the trail from the neon haze of Bangkok to the uneasy optimism of Ho Chi Minh City, he unravels a conspiracy built on money laundering, fraud, and political deceit. Two bodies are already on the ground. He might be next.Moore captures Southeast Asia's uneasy balance between progress and peril with the precision of a seasoned observer and the flair of a noir stylist. Comfort Zone exposes the psychological tension of expatriate life-where every favor has a price and the ghosts of past wars refuse to die.Gritty, atmospheric, and deeply human, this Calvino thriller explores the fragile line between justice and survival. Fans of hardboiled crime, international noir, and Graham Greene-style moral intrigue will find Comfort Zone unforgettable. Heaven Lake Press was founded in 1998. The mission is to publish authors whose books focus people, events, culture and history in Southeast Asia. In the past five years, we have been recognized as a publisher of quality books. We put a great deal of care in the production of our books. We have worked with some of Thailand's leading translators and are proud of our relationship with the Thai writing community. We have also have licensed German translations in exciting, modern fiction set in Thailand.Heaven Lake Press is a small team of professionals who run a small Thai publishing house. We have a growing list of authors. Our authors include Canadian, American, Cambodian and Thai writers. We hope to expand our list of authors and titles in the future. Our offices are located in Bangkok. Our hardback and trade paperback books are distributed to leading bookstores in Thailand, including Asia Books, Bookazine, Kinokuniya, B2S, The Book in Phuket, and Suriwong in Chiang Mai. Amarin is our distributor for our Thai language titles which can be found in over 150 bookstores in Thailand.We specialize in fiction – literary and crime fiction, as well as books on history, language, culture and relationships. Our list of non-fiction titles is quickly expanding. We are publishing three memoirs in 2006. Our books are published primarily in the English language, although we have started to publish books translated into the German and Thai languages.