Pattaya 24/7

Inside a secluded, lush estate on the edge of Pattaya, the body of an eccentric Englishman's gardener is found hanging from a tree. Vincent Calvino-Bangkok's hard-boiled private investigator-is hired to find out why. What begins as a routine case of possible suicide soon unravels into something far darker: the gardener's past is entwined with a secret war being waged in Thailand's drug-infested underworld.As Calvino follows the trail from the high-walled compounds of the wealthy to the humid backstreets of Pattaya's nightlife, he enters a world ruled by a local warlord whose reach extends into police, politics, and paramilitary networks. The deeper Calvino digs, the more he sees how fragile justice becomes when power and money collide.When an American Code Orange terrorist alert flashes across intelligence channels, Calvino realizes the threads of his investigation tie directly into global intrigue. A gardener's death becomes the fuse that threatens to ignite an international scandal.In a story packed with twists, betrayals, and moral ambiguity, Pattaya 24/7 explores the porous boundaries between law and lawlessness, friendship and corruption, illusion and survival. Through Calvino's cynical humor and weary compassion, Christopher G. Moore captures the pulse of modern Thailand-its contradictions, its beauty, and its dangers.For readers of noir, espionage, and literary crime, Pattaya 24/7 stands as a vivid portrait of Southeast Asia after dark-where the neon glows, secrets multiply, and every truth comes with a price. 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.