Land of Smiles Trilogy

Bangkok at night is glossy on the surface and razor-edged underneath. In A Killing Smile, Christopher G. Moore opens the Land of Smiles Trilogy with a noir portrait of obsession, desire, and the cost of belonging in a city that never forgets a debt.When an expat drifter falls for a magnetic young woman whose beauty hides a secret past, he's drawn into a world where favors are traded in whispers, bars turn into hunting grounds, and the past returns like a blade in the dark.From Soi Cowboy's neon glow to the riverfront shophouses, Moore tracks the fault line where love, money, and power collide. The result is a stylish, atmospheric thriller that captures Bangkok's seductions and dangers with the acuity that made the Vincent Calvino novels an international cult favorite.A Killing Smile is a standalone entry point for readers of Southeast Asian noir-perfect for fans of hard-boiled crime, psychological suspense, and literary thrillers that look unflinchingly at the cost of survival. 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.

In The Land of Smiles Trilogy, Christopher G. Moore peels back Thailand's serene mask to reveal the human and supernatural forces beneath. In A Bewitching Smile, former schoolteacher Richard Breach leaves Bangkok for the ancient Lanna kingdom, drawn into a world where shamans, gamblers, and foreign dreamers cross dangerous moral boundaries. Searching for ritual knives and a dying friend's truth, Breach becomes entangled with a woman whose beauty conceals a perilous secret. Moore's prose fuses noir psychology with spiritual mystery, tracing how the promise of enlightenment turns seductive-and deadly. A stand-alone novel that bridges Western reason and Eastern belief, A Bewitching Smileaffirms Moore's reputation as a master observer of Southeast Asia's mystic realism. Canadian Christopher G. Moore is the creator of the award-winning Vincent Calvino Private Eye series and the author of the Land of Smiles Trilogy.In his former life, he studied at Oxford University and taught law at the University of British Columbia. He wrote radio plays for the CBC and NHK before his first novel was published in New York in 1985, when he promptly left histenured academic job for an uncertain writing career, leaving his colleagues thinking he was not quite right in the head.His journey from Canada to Thailand, his adopted home, included some time in Japan in the early 1980s and four years in New York in the 1980s.In 1988, he came to Thailand to harvest materials to write a book. The visit was meant to be temporary. Twenty-six years on and 25 novels, three anthologies, and six non-fiction titles. There are fifteen novels in the Vincent Calvino series. He lives Bangkok.His novels have so far been translated into Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Russian and Turkish. He is published by Heaven Lake Press in Thailand. Four of the Vincent Calvino titles: Spirit House, Asia Hand, The Risk of Infidelity Index, and Paying Back Jack were published by Grove/Atlantic in the United States, and Atlantic Books in the United Kingdom.His Vincent Calvino series has been optioned for a feature film.

Bullets are flying in Bangkok.When journalist George Snow's BBC broadcast captures the crack of M-16 fire over Sanam Luang, expatriate writer Robert Tuttle is upcountry, listening in horror. As Bangkok erupts in violence, Tuttle races back to a city on fire - where soldiers turn their guns on civilians, and the air hums with ghosts from every side of Thailand's political divide.In A Haunting Smile, Christopher G. Moore paints an unforgettable portrait of a city-and a generation-on the edge. Through the fragmented voices of short stories, letters, radio reports, and documentary film scripts, he reveals a cast of haunted souls: journalists, arms dealers, drifters, and bar girls caught in a web of moral confusion.At HQ-the legendary Sukhumvit-Road nightspot where angels and devils trade dreams for cash-the living and the dead gather after midnight to barter their desires and bear witness to history's repeating nightmare.Moore's Bangkok noir classic remains one of the few works of fiction to confront the massacre of May 1992, a dark chapter when ordinary citizens faced down tyranny in the streets. Brutal, lyrical, and deeply human, A Haunting Smile is both a ghost story and a moral reckoning for a nation-and a species-forever haunted by its appetite for power. 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.