Twenty
years after the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam is opening to
the outside world. There is a smell of fast money in the air
and poverty in the streets. Business is booming and in austere
Ho Chi Minh City a new generation of foreigners have arrived
to make money and not war. Against the backdrop of Vietnam’s
economic miracle, Comfort Zone reveals a a divided people still
not reconciled with their past and unsure of their future.
Calvino
is hired by an ex-special forces vet, whose younger brother
uncovers corruption and fraud in the emerging business world
in which his clients are dealing. But before Calvino even leaves
Bangkok, there have already been two murders, one in Saigon
and one in Bangkok.
Praise
“Moore
hits home with more of everything in Comfort Zone. There is
a balanced mix of story-line, narrative, wisdom, knowledge
as well as love, sex, and murder.”
—Thailand Times
“In
a murder mystery with a plot that is better executed than any
Central Intelligence Agency black bag operation, the Bangkok
expatriate crowd have moved to boomtown Saigon. Like a Japanese
gardener who captures the land and the sky and recreates it
in the backyard, Moore’s genius is in portraying the Southeast
Asian heartscape behind the tourist industry hotel gloss.”
—The Daily Yomiuri
“Comfort
Zone is a good read—an up-to-date 90s feel.”
—Accent Thai
“In
Comfort Zone, our Bangkok-based P.I. is hired to go to Vietnam
to find the killer of a young American lawyer. He digs, discovering
layers of intrigue. He’s stalked by hired killers and
falls in love with a Hanoi girl. Can he trust her? The reader
is hooked.”
—NTUC Lifestyle (Singapore)
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