Christopher G. Moore
Cold Hit
Sixth in the Vincent Calvino P.I. Series
$17.95

Five foreigners have died in Bangkok. Drug overdose victims or victims of a serial killer? Calvino believes a serial killer is stalking tourists in Bangkok. The Thai cops including Colonel Pratt don’t buy his theory.

In Cold Hit, American P.I. Vincent Calvino teams up with LAPD Officer Jessada Santisak on a body guard assignment and hidden forces pull them through swank shopping malls, rundown hotels, Klong Toey slum, and the bars inside the Comfort Zone as they try to keep their man and themselves alive.

The ultimate dot.com is www.causemember.com A cyberspace club for single male travelers who flock to the Causeway bars in search of pleasure. But pleasure comes at price. Sometimes that price is their life. Enter the world of on-line sexual confessions, and the night world code of ethics as travelers navigate a new digital morality. As the Calvino learns more about the bodies being shipped back to America, the secret of the serial killer is revealed.

Heaven Lake Press (2004), 342 pp.

 

“The story is plausible and riveting to the end.”
—The Japan Times

“Tight, intricate plotting, wickedly astute . . . Cold Hit will have you variously gasping, chuckling, nodding, tut-tutting, oh-yesing, and grinding your teeth throughout its 330 pages.”
—Guide of Bangkok

“The plot is equally tricky, brilliantly devised, and clear.
One of the best crime fiction in the first half of the year”
—Ultimo Biedlefeld

“[Cold Hit] is no standard thriller, but a suspense literature full of original metaphors.”
—Saarbrücker Zeitung

“City jungle, sex, drugs, power, but also good-hearted people: a complete crime.”
—Zwanzig Minuten Zürich

“A colourful piece, rich in action, of detective literature.”
—Title Magazin.de

“Calvino is a wonderful private detective figure! Consistent action, masterful language . . .and Anglo-Saxon humour at its best.”
—Lutz Bunk, DeutschlandRadio, Berlin

“Moore depicts the city from below. He shows its dirt, its inner conflicts, its cruelty, its devotion. Hard, cruel, comical and good. ”
—Readme.de

“What is outstanding in the works of Christopher G. Moore is his in depth comprehension of what psychiatrist Carl Jung labeled the collective unconscious, as it applies to Thai motivation, thinking and action. Moore understands the Thais better than many understand themselves.”
—Bangkok Post

“Cold Hit definitely is one of those books you will not want to put down.”
—Pattaya Mail