two main stories interpenetrating make the frame of the novel: the sadistic murder of a former big-time Hollywood found disemboweled, trepanning -with some parts of his brain dégustées- in a small room in a hotel to pass one of the most "hot" in the Thai capital and the fact that the inspector Sonchai Jitpleecheep -the narrator and protagonist of this story (son of an American and a Thai prostitute districts, multilingual, especially cultivated in cinema Buddhist before the eternal) - became the "consigliere" of its leader Colonel Vikorn -which is to him an unpardonable sprained his proverbial integrity in thaïe- police and that he must take care to manage a large a strange Tibetan heroin sending on behalf of his chief obliged to bind his worst enemy a general of the Thai army to provide large sum of money claimed by the Tibetan in record time. Of the two other plots will flow which will include a pharmacist wealthy black widow, an important trading precious stones, a small Japanese committed suicide, a powerful Chinese mafia, the loss of a child and attempting to rely And always Bangkok in all its forms, Kathmandu and its sacred places and a pinch of Hong Kong very materialistic. I appreciated this complex and exciting thriller.