As
foreigners rush into Myanmar with briefcases stuffed with plans
and cash for hotels, shopping malls and high rises, they discover
the old ways die hard. Vincent Calvino’s case is to find a young
British-Thai man gone missing in Myanmar, while his best friend
and protector Colonel Pratt of the Royal Thai Police has an
order to cut off the supply of cold pills from Myanmar used
for the methamphetamine trade in Thailand.
As
one of the most noir novels in the Vincent Calvino series, Missing
in Rangoon plays out beneath the moving shadows of the
cross-border drug barons. Pratt and Calvino’s lives are entangled
with the invisible forces inside the old regime and their allies
who continue to play by their own set of rules.
Praise
“This Pratt-Calvino duo is simply unbeatable: their bond and blind faith in one another in confronting the perennial dangers in conflicts with gangsters, businessmen and government officials in cahoots with mafia bosses. Even in the most delicate situations, Pratt always has a beautiful and fitting Shakespearean quote… And aren’t the bloody feudal feuds of Shakespearean time like Southeast Asian socio-politics—its greedy, pugnacious warlords, clans and factions?”
—Peter Münder, CuturMag
“[Moore's]
descriptions of Rangoon are excellent. In particular, he excels
at describing the human and social fall-out that occurs when
a poor, isolated country suddenly opens its borders to the world.... Missing in Rangoon is a satisfying read, a mixture
of hard-boiled crime fiction and acute social observation set
in a little known part of Asia.”
—Andrew Nette, Crime
Fiction Lover
“One
interruption of a brilliant piece of fiction is that if one
single paragraph be taken away from the work then the whole
story crumbles to dust without making sense. Writing fiction
is about taking away what is not required. One must chip chip
chip away at a rock to uncover a statue. Missing in Rangoon
achieves this. The balance of dialogue, description, and action
is perfect.”
—James
Newman
“An
entertaining and enjoyable sojourn into complex terrain of Rangoon.”
—Robert Kitchin, View from the Bluehouse
“The
story is delicious... The plot takes several wonderful twists
that keep the reader mesmerized... It’s Moore at his
best, and displays his knowledge of how Southeast Asia really
works, in terms of unofficial channels... [Missing in
Rangoon] has passages with some of the best writing we’ve
seen from this prolific novelist.”
—WoWasis
Travelblog
“Missing
in Rangoon is another feather in Moore's cap.”
—Bernard Trink, Bangkok Post
“Moore
is a masterful story teller ... [Missing in Rangoon]
is excellent.”
—Lang Reid, Pattaya
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