In 1957 Richard Mason's The World of Suzie Wong shocked the world with an exotic tale set in Hong Kong, then in 1973 Paul Theroux's Saint Jack followed with a powerful story set in Singapore, and in 1991 Christopher G. Moore's A Killing Smile has registered a tour de force with a haunting drama set in Bangkok....

Heaven Lake Press (2004), 5th ed., 270 pp.

A Bewitching Smile is reminiscent of A Passage to India in the creation of a kind of psychological DMZ, another Shangri-la with its own ephipanies and perils. The tough-sensitive characterization, and the sharp, often aphoristic dialogue, and the irony, combine to create a powerful drama....

Heaven Lake Press (2000), 2nd ed., 292 pp.

Bullets are flying in Bangkok. Tuttle is upcountry when he hears Snow's BBC live report above the sound of M-16 fire direct from the urban battlefield near Sanam Luang. Tuttle, Snow, and Crosby return to HQ - the night-time meeting place on Sukhumvit Road where angels and devils, locals and foreigners, and the living and dead arrive after midnight to lease a few hours of pleasure, to offer up their dreams and desires, and to barter their souls for instant cash....

Heaven Lake Press (1999), 2nd ed., 320 pp.

A Killing Smile Special Edition is a collector's item. It is not just another mass produced book. The paper had to be special-ordered. The leather had to be sourced. None of this is easy in Thailand. A large number of copies were rejected because there was some defect in the production. Everything had to be perfect, from the leather, to the binding, to the imported paper, and the slip cover.

There are only 275 numbered and signed copies of this unique edition of A Killing Smile.

Heaven Lake Press (1998), 225 pp.

Am I a bad girl? Today I slept with a man for money for the first time. He was an American called David and he was thirty-five years old, exactly ten years older than me. Am I a bad girl? I don’t think so. I just want to do what is best for my parents and my son...

First edition (2008) Mass paperback Heaven Lake Press, 277 pp.

Gambling on Magic is set in Bangkok where life is more than good for Joey Balfour, ex-patriot gambling king, former TV personality, and the current owner of the mysterious and exotic Feng Shui Flower Shop in downtown Bangkok. Then ex-chief of security arrives in Bangkok to reopen an old unsolved Las Vegas casino theft. The thief has disappeared in Thailand and the conventional wisdom has it that Balfour holds the key to tracking him down. Caught in a web of deception and betrayal, Balfour discovers that other forces – more sinister and deadly – are slowly entangling him. The stakes are high, the odds are long, and for his greatest gamble, Balfour bets his own life on winning....

Heaven Lake Press (2005), 320pp.

Gambling on Magic is set in Bangkok where life is more than good for Joey Balfour, ex-patriot gambling king, former TV personality, and the current owner of the mysterious and exotic Feng Shui Flower Shop in downtown Bangkok. Then ex-chief of security arrives in Bangkok to reopen an old unsolved Las Vegas casino theft. The thief has disappeared in Thailand and the conventional wisdom has it that Balfour holds the key to tracking him down. Caught in a web of deception and betrayal, Balfour discovers that other forces – more sinister and deadly – are slowly entangling him. The stakes are high, the odds are long, and for his greatest gamble, Balfour bets his own life on winning....

Heaven Lake Press (2005), 320pp.

The Lady is Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratically elected leader of Burma who’s never been allowed to hold power. The military junta that has ruled the troubled country since 1962 has limited her contact with the outside world especially after she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, in 2002, she is given qualified release from house arrest. Sloan Walcott is determined to meet her. He has something to deliver....

Heaven Lake Press (2005), 319pp.

Chairs is a collection of sixteen original stories. The voices are those of Bangkok based freelance journalists and their invited guests. Each Saturday morning, over coffee, the members of Chairs gather to share the latest gossip, scandals, myths, dangers, exploits, and loves that bind together their small community. Sam Kohl is a narrator of the main stories, and Sam reveals, with perfect timing and ingenious twists, the clash of cultures as expats meet Thais, Chinese, Karen, and Burmese. Chairs is a search for redemption with stops at the Oriental Hotel, Pattaya, the Thermae, and the jungles of Burma. Along this journey you enter a vividly created world populated by adventurers, body snatchers, executioners, dreamers, collectors, diplomats, mistresses, ghosts, and war veterans....

Heaven Lake Press (2000), 281 pp.

God of Darkness set in Bangkok follows a group of expats who work for a telecommunications company. As the economic Crisis mounts, the pressures to find and keep a job increases. The lead character, Hurley, is from Seattle and lives inside a Thai family compound. His girlfriend is pressing him for marriage. At the same time, the future father-in-law, is showing Hurley how power and influence, like dope and sex, can become addictive. And his future mother-in-law, introduces him to Rahu worship, or the God of Darkness....

Heaven Lake Press (1999), 2nd ed., 318 pp.

A freak accident in Manhattan sets in motion a bizarre series of events driven by ambition, passion and, above all, revenge. Red Sky Falling is a post-modern family saga narrated by Gideon Harvey, who was born on the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination....

Heaven Lake Press (2005), 289 pp.

A powerful, evocative novel of international betrayal. In the Pacific Rim, the memories of World War II are awakened when the Ministry of Education announces revisions to Japanese history books for the schools ... one man's consciousness is haunted by what is removed from the past ... the war crimes he witnessed ... the secret alliance of medical/business interest in America and Japan ... and wedged between the past and present is one man, stranded in no-man's land ... between what he knew and what he could tell....

Heaven Lake Press (2004), 322 pp.

Christopher G. Moore
His Lordship's Arsenal

Matthew Burlock is a brilliant, eccentric judge, faces with the facts of a bizarre ritual murder. In the run-down Delrose Hotel, two men are found half-eaten by flames: one tied to a cross, the other tied up on the bed, with African lioness masks laid next to him. The police say it is a homosexual murder, but Burlock disagrees....

Heaven Lake Press (1999), 213 pp.

The novel starts in a Bangkok bar but soon the reader is transported to the key times and places of Thailand's turbulent political history and to the jungle camps of Thai communist guerrillas and Cambodian rebels. Set in the 1970s and '80s, Bangkok A-go-Go presents a unique vision of the political struggles that shaped Thailand's recent history. Bangkok A-go-Go is written from an insider's knowledge of these events....

Heaven Lake Press (2004), 313 pp.