John Burdett

A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities.
Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep—a...

In The Last Six Million Seconds, popular thriller author John Burdett creates a hard-hitting tale, bursting with true-to-life urgency and breath-taking suspense. He plunges listeners into Hong Kong where residents uneasily count the hours as they relentlessly speed toward the date when China again rules. After a tourist spots a suspicious package floating in the South China Sea, Chief Inspector Chan Siu-kai, known as Charlie to his friends, commands...