Author: John Burdett
Series: Sonchai Jitpleecheep 5
Genres: Mystery, Crime
Publisher: Knopf
Release: January 10th 2012
Source: ebook
Pages: 285
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BLURB:
Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact—more or less—despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok. But for his newest assignment, everything he knows about his city—and himself—will be a mere starting point.
He’s put in charge of the highest-profile criminal case in Thailand—an attempt to bring an end to trafficking in human organs. He sets in motion a massive sting operation and stays at its center, traveling to Phuket, Hong Kong, Dubai, Shanghai, and Monte Carlo. He draws in a host of unwitting players that includes an aging rock star wearing out his second liver and the mysterious, diabolical, albeit gorgeous co-queenpins of the international body-parts trade: the Chinese twins known as the Vultures. And yet, it’s closer to home that Sonchai will discover things getting really dicey: rumors will reach him suggesting that his ex-prostitute wife, Chanya, is having an affair. Will Sonchai be enlightened enough—forget Buddha, think jealous husband—to cope with his very own compromised and compromising world?
All will be revealed here, in John Burdett’s most mordantly funny, propulsive, fiendishly entertaining novel yet.
EXPECTATIONS: Hell, I no longer know what I expect or have expected from these books. The story is definitely rolling downwards. I just hoped there's some kind of a good case for Sonchai to follow.
THE WORLD: The dark underworld of Thailand is full of murders, crime, extortion, drugs, and literal demons. Among which are likely the human organ traffickers. This whole horrible case Sonchai's boss decided to take care of, that being one of the political maneuvers he prepared, takes Sonchai out of Thailand, out of known waters of Bangkok, and into every high place ever, up until he finally reaches the place known as Vulture Peak, where all this blood is leading to.
CHARACTERS: Sonchai, with his spiritual drama is juggling cases mentally, without us even realizing it, for instead of talking and thinking about them, he's concerned over other things, like not dying, like not getting his partner killed, like not pissing off his wife completely. In the mean time, his boss is trying to become a firm political figure in Bangkok, and possibly even finish off his rival, General Zina, who has troubles of his own boiling. A man from his past, a monster with such deformities he couldn't be recognized by his own mother, is terrorizing the city. And then, of course, there's the main players in the organ trafficking. Chinese twins with such deep rooted insanity, I thought them characters from Vampire the Masquerade, the Janus Twins.
ROMANCE: Apparently every woman ever really wants this scrawny little Sonchai of ours. Even the transgender women who don't really have sex, ever, seem to like him. It's confusing as hell, and his behavior is ridiculous.
GOOD: General Zina has been taken down by his own tragic love story, and that was the most interesting thing in this whole book.
BAD: A lot. No, really. The story was very mediocre, Sonchai's karma-driven personality is becoming ridiculously inconsistent, I do not understand his wife at all, nor do I understand why there's always a crazy man in the right place, at the right time, pointing his finger at a culprit for Sonchai.
OVERALL: I just want to be done with this. One more book, and we're burying. What started good... Eh, sad.
What do you think about VULTURE PEAK?
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