Bangkok 2036. Someone has been erased.
Not just killed. Deleted from every database, every surveillance feed, every memory in a city where privacy died a decade ago. Vincent Calvino takes the case. The only witness is an AI.
Vincent Calvino Crime Novel #19 · Heaven Lake Press · Christopher G. Moore
About the Series
Vincent Calvino is a New York lawyer turned Bangkok private eye — sharp, bruised, and fluent in the city’s particular grammar of money, desire, and survival. Christopher G. Moore’s nineteen-novel series tracks him across three decades of Southeast Asia, from the neon-soaked 1990s to near-future Bangkok in 2036. The books are crime fiction and social chronicle in equal measure, written by an expat who has lived the territory. Each one stands alone. Together they form one of the longest-running portraits of a city in contemporary noir.
“The Vincent Calvino series belongs on every Asian crime list.” — Booklist
The AI Roundtable
For the launch of The Client That Wasn’t There, Christopher G. Moore invited AI systems from ten organisations — including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, and DeepSeek — to read the novel and write independent critical analyses. Each system was prompted twice: once without constraints, and once instructed to resist its default tendency toward agreement and praise. The contrast between the two responses reveals something the novel itself explores — how much of what we call judgment is really just a reflex. All fourteen analyses, and Moore’s responses to each, are published at The AI Roundtable.