A beautiful American blond is found dead with a large bullet hole in her head in the house of her ex-boyfriend. A famous Hollywood screen-writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone except Calvino's client believes Samantha McNeal has committed suicide. In the early days of the Internet, Sam ran with a young and wild expat crowd in Bangkok. As Calvino slides into a world where people are dead serious about sex, money and fame, he unearths a hedonistic com-munity where the ritual of death is the ultimate high."The Big Weird is an excellent read, charming, amusing, insightful, complex, localised yet startlingly universal in its themes."-Guide of Bangkok"A good read, fast-paced and laced with so many of the locales so familiar to the expat denizens of Bangkok."-Art of Living (Thailand)
A beautiful American blond is found dead with a large bullet hole in her head in the house of her ex-boyfriend. A famous Hollywood screen-writer hires Calvino to investigate her death. Everyone except Calvino's client believes Samantha McNeal has committed suicide. In the early days of the Internet, Sam ran with a young and wild expat crowd in Bangkok. As Calvino slides into a world where people are dead serious about sex, money and fame, he unearths a hedonistic com-munity where the ritual of death is the ultimate high."The Big Weird is an excellent read, charming, amusing, insightful, complex, localised yet startlingly universal in its themes."-Guide of Bangkok"A good read, fast-paced and laced with so many of the locales so familiar to the expat denizens of Bangkok."-Art of Living (Thailand)