Mobility runs deep in our evolutionary history. From our beginnings as a species our small bands were on the move. About 10,000 years ago Agriculture hobbled us. Over millennia, we gradually relinquished our traditional mobility by living in permanent rooms. For millennia our world has been constructed from rooms and each generation tells a story of their experience in the never ending, unsuccessful struggle to escape. Rooms is a chronicle that describes the processes that shaped and modif...

The murder of a foreigner in Thailand kicks off this crime thriller, the first in the Shamus Award–winning series by "a terrific writer" (T. Jefferson Parker).A farang is dead, and the Bangkok police have a confession the next morning from a young paint-thinner addict. He claims he killed Ben Hoadly, an expat Brit—but American PI Vincent Calvino has his doubts when he sees heavy bruises on the kid's face.In no time Calvino is working both sides, ou...

Shamus Award Winner: A disbarred American lawyer-turned-PI tracks down a killer: "Think Dashiell Hammett in Bangkok" ( San Francisco Chronicle).It's the Year of the Monkey in Bangkok. But expat Vincent Calvino's Chinese New Year celebration has been interrupted. Thai cops have fished the body of a farang—foreign—cameraman from Lumpini Park Lake, and CNN is running dramatic footage of several Burmese soldiers on the Thailand border executing studen...

Bangkok at night is glossy on the surface and razor-edged underneath. In A Killing Smile, Christopher G. Moore opens the Land of Smiles Trilogy with a noir portrait of obsession, desire, and the cost of belonging in a city that never forgets a debt.When an expat drifter falls for a magnetic young woman whose beauty hides a secret past, he's drawn into a world where favors are traded in whispers, bars turn into hunting grounds, and the past returns like a blade in t...

Christopher G. Moore—creator of the internationally acclaimed Vincent Calvino crime-fiction series—turns his sharp, compassionate eye toward the moral undercurrents of modern Thailand. Fear and Loathing in Bangkok collects Moore's most provocative essays on crime, corruption, superstition, and survival in a city that both seduces and shocks.From "I Am Awesome," the story of a hapless Thai outlaw with five wives and a hole in his leg, to "Speeding Red Bull's Hit 'n Run," "T...

Heart Talk explores the emotional range of the Thai language through the word jai—the heart. In Thailand, the heart is more than a metaphor; it is the center of thought, mood, and connection. This updated digital edition presents over 900 jai-based expressions, organized by situation and nuance, revealing how Thai speakers convey compassion, anger, generosity, and joy. Each entry includes pronunciation and phonetic guides, illustrative examples, and a sig...

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 suspi...

This story is one of sixteen stories from CHAIRS. The voices are those of Bangkok based freelance journalists and their invited guests. Each Saturday morning, over coffee, the members of Chairs gather to share the latest gossip, scandals, myths, dangers, exploits, and loves that bind together their small community. Sam Kohl is a narrator of the main stories, and Sam reveals, with perfect timing and ingenious twists, the clash of cultures as expats meet Thais, Chinese, Karen, a...

Obey includes three essays and one short story by Christopher G. Moore. This short collection is a penetrating analysis of the continued influences of Henry Miller and George Orwell work on contemporary literature. The major themes—abuse of power, subservience, and liberty—illustrate Miller and Orwell’s works as models for speaking truth to authority.   “Moore’s noir thrillers and literary fiction—like Graham Greene, he alternates between ‘entertainment’ and s...

A contemporary murder set in Bangkok—a neighbor and friend, a young ex-hooker turned artist, is found dead by an American millionaire’s minor wife. Her rich expat husband hires Calvino to investigate.While searching for the killer in exclusive clubs and not-so-exclusive bars of Bangkok, Calvino discovers that a minor wife—mia noi—has everything to do with a woman’s status. From illegal cock fighting matches to elite Bangkok golf clubs, Calvino finds himself caught in the crossfire ...

In The Land of Smiles Trilogy, Christopher G. Moore peels back Thailand's serene mask to reveal the human and supernatural forces beneath. In A Bewitching Smile, former schoolteacher Richard Breach leaves Bangkok for the ancient Lanna kingdom, drawn into a world where shamans, gamblers, and foreign dreamers cross dangerous moral boundaries. Searching for ritual knives and a dying friend's truth, Breach becomes entangled with a woman whose beauty conceals a perilous secret...

Bangkok is one of the great cities in the world, but unlike other great metropolises it has no noir tales to its name. Bangkok Noir puts that to right. In this first ever noir anthology of Bangkok, twelve seasoned and internationally known—Thai and Western—writers have come together to make a powerful collection of crime fiction short stories that portray the dark side of this Asian metropolis where the lives of most citizens seem as far away from heaven as its Thai name Krungthe...