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“Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.” LifeCharacterStruggleNoir Fiction Book:God of Darkness Source: God of Darkness
“The bodhi tree has been converted into a marriage tree. The belief is that young women who die before marriage should have a husband in the next world. Their relatives bring a wedding dress and monks to this tree and perform a wedding ceremony. The spirit of the dead woman is married to a famous singer, poet or magician who died many years ago. Their families believe that he’ll be a good husband will look after each wife as if she were the only one.” AfterlifeDeath Of A Loved OneSupernatural PowersCulture ShockAfterlife Communication Book:The Marriage Tree: Vincent Calvino Crime Novel Source: The Marriage Tree: Vincent Calvino Crime Novel
“Each age recreates its own justice system and selects the judges and other personnel to run it. And in each age, the status, reputation, and standing of the judges is reinvented to suite the purposes of the day.” JusticeHistoryJudgesLawyers Decision Making Book:The Age of Dis-Consent Source: The Age of Dis-Consent
“Asking if there is corruption in Thailand is like asking if there is dough inside a bakery. Pies and cakes don’t come from heaven and neither do deals and contracts.” ThailandCorruption QuotesCorruption PoliticsNoir FictionHardboiledCorruption And Crime Book:Spirit House Source: Spirit House
“That was the grand bargain with evil. No wrong ever got righted, any more than a hangman’s rope was ever unknotted and used as a child’s swing.” Private InvestigatorNoir FictionHardboiledBangkok Fiction Book:Crackdown Source: Crackdown
“My goal is to live far outside of history as possible. History is a territory where mostly bad things happen to good people.” Noir FictionNoir MysteryHardboiledBangkok FictionPrivate Eye Fiction Book:Crackdown Source: Crackdown
“Rumors in Thailand don’t have fathers or mothers. They’re orphans of loan sharks, con men, streetwalkers, and fortune tellers. No one claims them until they become legitimate.” Noir FictionExpatBangkok FictionBangkok ThrillerPrivate Eye Fiction Author:Christopher G. Moore
“I’d rather go broke giving enemas to house lizards than make money from customers like him. Old George made a fist and thrust it toward the water buffalo mounted on the wall above his head.” Mystery ThrillerNoir FictionPolitical ThrillerBangkok ThrillerPrivate Eye Fiction Book:Paying Back Jack: A Vincent Calvino Novel Source: Paying Back Jack: A Vincent Calvino Novel
“I’ve heard that you’re in the pain business. I don’t like doing work for that kind of man,” said Vincent Calvino. Casey rolled his neck and a small cracking noise echoed from the bones inside. “If you worked only for people you liked, you wouldn’t cover your rent.” Noir FictionHardboiledExpat LifeBangkok FictionThailand Thrillers Author:Christopher G. Moore
“It was now hard to believe how difficult it had once been to follow a person in Bangkok in a time before smart phones and social media. The new generation demanded to be followed online. It was in their digital blood. A small investment in a few specialized apps, and not even Sherlock Holmes in his most inspired opium dreams could have imagined the possibilities.” Technology QuotesNoir FictionHardboiledBangkokExpatsPrivate Eye Thailand Book:Crackdown Source: Crackdown
“Let me share what I’ve learned about Thai politics. Keep a distance from those doing a victory dance in the end zone unless you understand their game, how it’s scored and how many players each side has. If you can’t figure out the rules of the game, you won’t know when the game has started and when it’s over. Don’t put a bet on a game you don’t understand.” Noir FictionHardboiledGame Of LifeExpatsBangkok Thriller Book:Crackdown Source: Crackdown
“Thais have a saying about a frog living inside a coconut shell. The frog believes that the world inside the shell is the whole universe. In the private investigation business, Vincent Calvino had clients who like the frog. What they saw from inside their shell blinded them, made them unable to solve a problem. So they hired Calvino. He knew the drill. Shells offered comfort and security. Leaving could be a dangerous business.” Thriller NovelsThailandNoir FictionCultural IdentityExpatsInsular Existence Book:The Risk of Infidelity Index: A Vincent Calvino Crime Novel Source: The Risk of Infidelity Index: A Vincent Calvino Crime Novel
“The Bangkok Comfort Zone - that strip running between Patpong, Soi Cowboy and Nana - was a huge bank of ice, thick as a glacier. Only you had to be around years and years to see and feel the deep chill, and by the time you had it was too late, the glacier had already dragged you under.” Noir FictionCultural IdentityHardboiledBangkokExpat Life Book:Comfort Zone Source: Comfort Zone
“All yings are time rats, time bandits. Open their guts and what you find inside their digestive tract are the second and minutes of hundreds of men’s lives. Time cannibals. All those broken minute and hour hands just lying undigested in their stomach. It makes me want to drink.” Time QuotesCultural DifferencesNoir FictionHardboiledBangkokExpats Adventure Book:Cold Hit: A Novel Source: Cold Hit: A Novel
“The best crime fiction is not so much a search and rescue mission, but a recovery mission.” Crime FictionNoir FictionAuthors On WritingAuthors Quote Book:Faking It in Bangkok Source: Faking It in Bangkok
“Feudalism, that discreet system of gentlemen gangsters and serfs, had never died out in the region, and was concealed in the trappings of modern buildings and streets. Only a lunatic would quarrel with his master; only a fool would not understand that he stood in the steel jaws of death his entire life.” Crime FictionThailandHistory Of MankindFeudalismAuthority And AttitudeBangkok Fiction Book:Spirit House Source: Spirit House
“(Calvino) had long ago accepted that his business model as a private investigator in Bangkok needed to incorporate spirit house offerings, lizard and gecko yammering, fortune tellers’ predictions of auspicious days and times, and Chinese reading of faces and head shapes before any decision would be made. . .the day soon came when they no longer seemed crazy.” NoirMystery ThrillerExpats AdventureFortune TellersRangoonSpirit Houses Book:Missing In Rangoon: Vincent Calvino Crime Novel Source: Missing In Rangoon: Vincent Calvino Crime Novel
“Misfits, con artists, evildoers all had business cards. It was enough to make any man a bona fide misanthrope.” MisanthropeNoir MysteryHardboiledBangkokPrivate EyeMisfits Quotes Book:Pattaya 24/7 Source: Pattaya 24/7
“The Bangkok Comfort Zone - that strip running between Patpong, Soi Cowboy and Nana - was a huge bank of ice, thick as a glacier. Only you had to be around years and years to see and feel the deep chill, and by the time you had it was too late, the glacier had already dragged you under. Then you could never escape the gravity of the place that pulled them back from all over the world. Comfort Zone ice like a narcotic made you feel invincible. Zone veterans lived inside a solid block of ice. Zone workers, who were teenagers in chronological years, were soon aged inside the ice. The night ice crystals formed a thick fog over the Zone veterans and workers, creating an ice bridge; these ice people knew they could no longer live outside the Comfort Zone. They looked as normal as anyone else on the street because no one can see the ice, it's carried inside, around the heart. Calvino had gone through the event horizon of the Comfort Zone, and lived in the Zone's ice age for so long that it had become a habit. Addiction, baby. He had become Zone dead like the others” Bangkok Fiction Book:Comfort Zone Source: Comfort Zone