Warren Olson. Monsoon Books Pte. Two-timing bargirls, suspicious spouses and lesbian lovers - it was all in a day's work for Bangkok Private Eye Warren Olson.
For more than a decade, Olson walked the mean streets of the Big Mango. Fluent in Thai and Khmer, he was able to go where other private eyes feared to tread. His clients included Westerners who had lost their hearts and life savings to moneyhungry bargirls. But he had more than his fair share of Thai clients, too, including a sweet old lady who was ripped off by a Christian conman and a Thai girl blackmailed by a former lover.
Want to Read. Rate this book. Stephen Leather , Warren Olson. Two-timing bargirls, suspicious spouses, and lesbian lovers'--it was all in a day's work for Bangkok Private Eye Warren Olson. Fluent in Thai and Khmer, Olson walked the mean streets of Bangkok and was able to go where other Private Eyes feared to tread. The stories are based on Olson's case files, fictionalized to protect the innocent, and the guilty by bestselling author Stephen Leather. Travel True Crime Asia.
More details. Stephen Leather books 1, followers. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. Search review text. If I had to use one word to sum up this book, it would be 'lacklustre'. But that's not strictly fair as I only read the first story and attempted to read and maintain interest in the second but failed.
What is interesting in pursuing a woman and her suspected lover, catching them in the act and taking a pic for the cuckolded husband? Maybe that he is pursued by men on motorbikes for reasons that have nothing to do with the situation but no one knows anyway? The second story was worse. I can't even remember it more than an old-lady bar girl. I only got the book because Bangkok is my favourite city joint, with London and thought it would be fun to read of the culture from this angle.
It wasn't. Life's too short for stories where you can't remember the beginning when you've got to the middle. For more than a decade, the intrepid Warren Olson trawled the mean streets of Bangkok and the lesser-known corners of the Land of Smiles.
His brief? To uncover unsavory truths about Thai bar-girl lovers, philandering spouses, insurance fraud and scam artists of various stripes. Warren followed all the usual modes of his detective work in tracking a wayward wife from the airport to her hotel along with her young boyfriend. His client wanted a photo of his wife with her boyfriend in a compromising position.
So armed with a new digital camera he was on their trail. Unfortunately as he attempted to take a picture the camera's flash light up the whole street. It also illuminated some bad guys who thought he was trying to uncover their bad activities.
I could feel sweat trickling down my neck. Life is cheap in Bangkok. But amateurs were also happy to use bullets to solve a quarrel because most murderers end up serving seven years at most, and that was in the unlikely event of them being caught. All of this was running through my mind as I drove through the streets at high speed.
For all I knew, the four guys in hot pursuit could well be off-duty cops. Olson has now relocated to his native New Zealand with his Thai wife and daughter, but the agency that he founded is still open for business at www. Publisher: Monsoon Books Pte. Availability can change throughout the month based on the library's budget.
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