Bücher von Timothy Hallinan

A late-night poker game in Bangkok nets American ex-pat writer Poke Rafferty the "opportunity" to write the biography of Khun Pan, a flamboyant, vulgar, self-made billionaire with a criminal past and far-reaching political ambitions. Within hours, Rafferty, his wife, Rose, their adopted daughter, Miaow, and Poke's best friend, honest Bangkok cop Arthit, have become disposable pawns in a brutal power struggle among some of Thailand's richest, most ruthless citizens. There are those who would go to any length to ensure the book is never written and others equally desperate to have Pan's darkest secrets exposed. Suddenly Rafferty is sinking deeper in a perilous sea of treachery and intrigue?and caught up in the inhuman machinations of an Asian babyselling ring?as he searches frantically for the only chance he may have to get everyone he loves out alive.

Poke Rafferty is playing family with Rose, the dancer he wants to marry, and with Miaow, the street child he wants to adopt. Yet when everything is beginning to work out, trouble comes looking for Poke. Suddenly he finds himself pulled into a dark side of Bangkok that he doesn't know or understand, but everything he has is suddenly under threat.