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The Risk of Infidelity Index

by Christopher G. Moore
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An expat detective navigates through seamy, steamy Bangkok in this novel in the international bestselling and Shamus Award–winning series.
 
When PI Vincent Calvino’s surveillance of a drug piracy ring ends in definitive video evidence, it looks like the fortunes of the American expatriate and disbarred lawyer are about to turn. But when Calvino’s client dies of a heart attack, and he finds the body of a murdered massage girl downstairs, the Thai authorities get suspicious of the farang who was in the wrong place at the wrong time . . . twice.
 
To make matters worse, with the dead man unlikely to pay, Calvino is forced to take on a job he doesn’t want, trailing the spouses of three expat housewives who have been rattled by “The Risk of Infidelity Index,” a handbook that ranks Bangkok as the city where men are most likely to stray. Unfortunately for Calvino, jealous wives tend to be unhappy, regardless of the results, and drug pirates aren’t the type to play nice . . .
 
“Underneath Bangkok society is a deeply encrusted demiworld of hope, despair, corruption, and courage that Moore . . . paints with maestrolike Dickensian strokes.” —The Seattle Times
 
“A terrific character . . . A terrific writer.” —T. Jefferson Parker
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Series: Vincent Calvino Publisher: Grove Atlantic

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  • Release date: January 19, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9781555848392
  • Release date: January 19, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9781555848392
  • File size: 2618 KB
  • Release date: January 19, 2009
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Fiction Mystery Thriller

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An expat detective navigates through seamy, steamy Bangkok in this novel in the international bestselling and Shamus Award–winning series.
 
When PI Vincent Calvino’s surveillance of a drug piracy ring ends in definitive video evidence, it looks like the fortunes of the American expatriate and disbarred lawyer are about to turn. But when Calvino’s client dies of a heart attack, and he finds the body of a murdered massage girl downstairs, the Thai authorities get suspicious of the farang who was in the wrong place at the wrong time . . . twice.
 
To make matters worse, with the dead man unlikely to pay, Calvino is forced to take on a job he doesn’t want, trailing the spouses of three expat housewives who have been rattled by “The Risk of Infidelity Index,” a handbook that ranks Bangkok as the city where men are most likely to stray. Unfortunately for Calvino, jealous wives tend to be unhappy, regardless of the results, and drug pirates aren’t the type to play nice . . .
 
“Underneath Bangkok society is a deeply encrusted demiworld of hope, despair, corruption, and courage that Moore . . . paints with maestrolike Dickensian strokes.” —The Seattle Times
 
“A terrific character . . . A terrific writer.” —T. Jefferson Parker
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Fiction Mystery Thriller