Thrillers Thailand

In Bangkok, everyone gets the chance to start over. Few questions are asked. When American criminal defense lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen took a bundle of cash from a murdered client and moved to Thailand and a new life, he thought his troubles were over. For seven years, Glenn enjoys the life of a wealthy expat, forms friendships and seeks love, spending much of his time at the mysterious NJA Club where he pursues the beautiful Noi. This pleasant life is turned upside down when American agents come calling, pressuring him to kidnap a Russian gangster, a dangerous task for which he is woefully ...

Praise for Pattaya Heat: "IF YOU ENJOY OLD DETECTIVE STORIES, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS." "EXCELLENT BOOK AND A GREAT NEW DETECTIVE!" Welcome to Pattaya City, Thailand. This piss-poor paradise makes Las Vegas look like a PG-13 Disney movie. Pattaya is where Richy Sky has landed for a premature mid-life crisis. This is not where he wants to be, scraping by taking small-time PI jobs, mostly infidelity investigations. The fun, if you could call it that, can't last forever, and now Richy sees a way out -- a new job, one that pays very well. All he has to do is find a missing antique watch that's worth ...

THIS IS A SHORT STORY The Reliable Man is tasked with a highly political assassination in his own back yard. He's unsure whether to take the job but finally agrees. For this one he is planning to use the Sig Sauer SSG 3000 sniper rifle, not his usual weapon of choice but there are particular reasons why it is an effective tool. However, as always, things don't entirely go to plan.

THIS BOOK WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE 'THE RELIABLE MAN' When Bill Jedburgh, a former Royal Hong Kong Police Inspector travels to Pattaya in Thailand, it’s not just to lie on the beach, drink beer and party with the local bar-girls. He’s been hired to kill the head of the German Mafia who control the night clubs, the drug dealing and the prostitution in town. But his plans start going adrift when he is blackmailed by a Hong Kong Triad boss into doing another job, teaming him up with the gorgeous Simone de Marelle. Then a Thai gangster general turns up knowing more about ...

It’s 1994 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun-for-hire, is sent to Switzerland to persuade aging film star Roger Cromwell to appear in a film being produced in Thailand by dubious entrepreneur Harry Bolt. Arriving in the land of cuckoo clocks and private banks, Jedburgh finds himself being asked to protect a mysterious Korean beauty and her ten year old nephew, investigate a sinister religious cult run by a former Belgian Special Forces Colonel and to recover a long-lost Vatican artefact. Soon Jedburgh is in the cross-hairs of the CIA and the bodies ...

One chance encounter can change everything. Erin receives a phone call informing her of an unexpected inheritence from a man she barely remembers meeting at Bangkok Airport a year prior. The man, a wealthy sapphire dealer, left her everything. As Erin travels to America to claim her inheritence, she discovers that his death might not have been an accident. Someone wanted him silenced, and now, they’re coming after her. Trapped in a web of secrets, she realises she has inherited more than just his fortune, she has inherited his enemies. With no one to trust and danger closing in, Erin must...

The fourth in the series of John Peters Mystery Thrillers. Following on Operation Black Amphora, the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great, the Devil's Dagger, preventing a global virus disaster and Treasures of the Deep, searching for lost treasures on sunken ships and preventing an ecological disaster, John, his wife Liz and their friends Harry and Meg, Nicos and Maria as well as Fred and Angelique James are off on another adventure this time in the Pacific and confronting old enemies.

The electrifying sequel to THE OPENER! Don Rouse is young, rich, happily married and lives the life of a jet-setting expatriate in Southeast Asia. He also happens to be a master con artist, a manipulative swindler who controls a fictitious firm that convinces unsuspecting clients to place all their money into bogus investment opportunities. Aided by corrupt government officials, crooked cops, and unscrupulous bankers, Don lives a whimsical life of leisure and luxury with his alluring wife Jessica. When a mundane business meeting suddenly turns deadly, Don must use all of his cunning and ...

Critically acclaimed, nationally best-selling author John Burdett has earned starred reviews for the fast-paced action, snappy dialogue, and gritty realism of his thrilling tales starring Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. In this vibrant and witty novel, devout Buddhist Sonchai relies on his karma to guide him through the seamy underbelly of Bangkok as he pieces together the scattered clues of a complex mystery.

Abandoning a recession-plagued America for the easy money of Southeast Asia's lucrative but highly illegal investment scam industry, Don Rouse must navigate through a sordid world of drug addicts, deviants, prostitutes and professional con men in order to achieve his lifelong dream of making it big. But his world is suddenly turned upside down when the police show up and his boss goes missing. After a chance meeting with the alluring but enigmatic Jessica, Don is plunged into a high stakes mystery that could very well put an end to his criminal career and perhaps even his life. From the ...

When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, working for one of Thailand's English-language newspapers. One evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story. A charismatic American anthropologist has been found dead, a suicide, in the Thai prison where she was serving a 50-year sentence for murder. Motivated first by simple curiosity, then by deeper and more mysterious feelings, Mischa searches relentlessly to discover the details of her crime.

A year after US expat lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen helped drive the Brooklyn Mafia out of Bangkok, he expected to spend the rest of his life as a refined and affluent hedonist. His new NJA Club friends, Michel and Jing, share Glenn's love of French cinema, good coffee, and strong weed. Then Glenn realizes that he really does not know anything about Michel, and when he asks questions, he is followed by a scary-looking fellow, seduced by Jing, and warned that his life is in danger. The NJA Club gang comes to Glenn's aid, as they struggle to make sense out of a series of seemingly disconnected ...

After dumping her boorish boyfriend, Madeleine LeMesurier takes a break from her job at a Hong Kong-based detective agency and signs up for a scuba diving holiday in Thailand. Despite the presence of hunky Australian investment banker Robert Maine on the dive boat, the vacation turns out far from idyllic when a series of strange accidents, a missing diver, and a baffling death occur. It seems not everyone on the boat is who they claim to be.

THIS IS A SHORT STORY Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun for hire is chilling out in Phuket shortly before Christmas, enjoying the nightlife and teaching an Open Water Scuba Diving Course. He strikes up a friendship with a charming codger called Clarence who makes him an unusual proposition. The Reliable Man is inclined to help but when some dodgy Russian gangsters turn up and start muddying the waters his blood begins to boil.

You walk across white sand towards the sparkling ocean. You’re leading a group to scuba dive in some of the most beautiful waters on earth, an experience that will stay with you forever. But twenty minutes later, one diver is dead, another critically injured, and your life is in immediate danger.

Plenty of guys fly to Thailand every year, hoping to meet a good Thai lady to spend the rest of their life with. The vast majority fly home disappointed, and even among those that do manage to meet a nice lady, a high percentage see their dreams flounder. I will tell you why. I will tell you the greatest singular mistake that men make when dealing with Thai women. Then I will tell you the next biggest mistake that far too many men make.

THIS IS A SHORT STORY It's 2003 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police, is on a scuba diving holiday in Phuket, Thailand with his American buddy Ed Cleveland. After enjoying the nightlife for a few days they head out on a live-aboard to the Mergui Archipelago. But this dive trip is not going to end well.

Foreign men are a laughing stock among the Thai community, and Thai men think we are world-class idiots. They think we are gullible, and far too many farang men prove them correct. And that's due to delusions that never die. In this audiobook, I'll expose these chronic fantasies. You'll discover the alternate point of view, understand the nature of the lies, and get insight into the roots of the delusions.

Escaping New York for the anonymity of Bangkok, Sarah Mullins arrives in Thailand with a suitcase of money and a deception she holds close to her chest. Her plan is to lie low and map out her next move in a high-end apartment complex called the Kingdom, whose glass-fronted façade boasts views of the bustling city and glimpses into the vast honeycomb of lives within. It is not long before she meets the alluring Mali, doing laps in the apartment pool, a half-Thai tenant determined to bring the quiet American out of her shell.

THIS IS A SHORT STORY It’s 1998 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun for hire is on his way to Hua Hin with his new toy: an Accuracy International Arctic Warfare sniper rifle. All he wants to do is put the weapon through its paces and have a relaxing weekend with his girlfriend, but somehow he ends up in a pistol duel. Without his trusty Glock he has to quickly get familiar with the Ruger Mark II.