“The
whole effect is very real— particularly the revelation
of those razor teeth back of the Smile.”
—Gore Vidal
“Moore
is a master of detail . . . a pioneer, daring and inventive.”
—The Nation
“I
was knocked out by the sensitivity of the writing, the textures
of the characters, the many levels of feeling. The outcome
is one of the finest male bonding stories I have ever come
across and I kick myself that I didn’t write this novel.”
—Stirling Silliphant, Oscar winner for In the Heat
of the Night
“The
portrait of Tuttle as an expatriate shipwrecked in an alien
tropic brings to mind Theroux's Jack Flowers.”
—The Japan Times
“In
A Killing Smile Moore succeeds in translating for a Western
audience the inside of how Thais think. Above all he describes
with an objective, non-judgemental eye the raw pathos, the
light and shadow of the world that never surfaces in the glossy
tourist catalogues.”
—Fabio Novel, Thriller Magazine (Italy)
“Critically
regarded as the best Western author today whose books focus
on this country (e.g., A Killing Smile).”
—Bangkok Post
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.
