Slash and Burn (A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery)
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (531 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616951788 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 290 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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THe author gives us exotic locations; a world that few us know well; crisp, intelligent, and often-witty writing; and most of all a hero unlike any other."—Philadelphia Inquirer"A crack storyteller and an impressive guide to a little-known culture."—Washington Post Book World“This is the seventh and most sardonic of Mr. Siri series, and it is not easy to cope with the combination of misery and merry melancholy that he employs. Authors more often than not run out of steam by the seventh book. This is the eighth and best, and it’s been far too long since book seven.” —The Globe and Mail“Outstanding d
Siri get to the bottom of the MIA pilot’s mysterious story before the body count rises and the fortune-teller’s prediction comes true?. And now that he is in his mid-70s, he longs to spend some time with his wife before the untimely death that is sure to befall him, according to the local transvestite fortune-teller. Siri suspects it may not have been an accident. But retirement will have to wait (again) until he has completed one last job for the Lao government: supervising an excavation for the remains of a US fighter pilot who went down in the remote northern Lao jungle ten years earlier. So when a member of the party is found dead, Dr. Siri never really wanted to be Laos’s national coroner. The eighth Dr. Can Dr. And the stakes are high. Siri Paiboun mysteryDr. The presence of American soldiers in Laos is controversial, and the search party includes high-level politicians and scientists
His fiction has won a Dilys Award and a CWA Dagger in the Library. Colin Cotterill is the author of ten other books in the Dr. He lives in Chumphon, Thailand, with his wife and six deranged dogs.From the Hardcover edition.. Siri Paiboun series, including The Coroner’s Lunch, Thirty-Three Teeth, Disco for the Departed, and Six and a Half Deadly Sins
Funny and interesting almagray A refreshing , witty take from a European about his adopted country Laos. Didn't know much about Laos before this series but it is a fascinating country with a fascinating history.. Long Time No See - But Now Dr Siri is Back!!!! Miki101.Michaela :0))) After the misadventures our admired hero, the Laotian against-his-will-coroner Dr Siri had to suffer in the book Love Songs from a Shallow Grave: A Dr. Siri Mystery he surely deserves an all-expenses-paid holiday trip to the northern mountains of Laos.The more as he is literally counting the hours and minutes to leave his undesired working p. "Here we go again!" according to Phillip Jennings. As an (mostly) airborne resident of Laos for a couple of years--a helicopter pilot for Air America--I've truly enjoyed Cotterill's Laotian characters, descriptions of the country, and his writing style. He knows Laos. He knows the Laotian people. He knows little about the American military and in particular the helicopter world. And I always