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Thailand is terrified. A sadistic serial killer has been abducting young innocents for his ritual horror and the authorities are clueless. Carl Engel is an enigma. The blunt Londoner has forged a thirty-year career as a private investigator amid the chaos of Thailand's political history. Struggling with advancing years and a decreasing workload he is approached by an elderly American with a lucrative missing persons case. The case descends into the sordid world of the elusive serial killer and a menacing web of political intrigue dating back to the Vietnam War. Carl must use his guile and experience to stay alive, find the killer and negotiate the dangerous military interests that lurk behind the scenes. Based on a real person Carl Engel lives in a world rarely seen by outsiders and hauls the reader on a pulsating ride to the explosive conclusion.
Soon to be a major motion picture. Monfils Pictures have bought the rights to Bangkok Rules and will begin pre-production in 2015.
"Bangkok Rules! So does Harlan Wolff. If there's a better thriller set in Bangkok I've yet to read it." - Stephen Leather (Bestselling Author)
- Sales Rank: #382838 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-01-05
- Released on: 2014-01-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
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"Bangkok Rules! So does Harlan Wolff. If there's a better thriller set in Bangkok I've yet to read it." - Stephen Leather - author of the international bestselling Spider Shepherd series and Thailand's most talked about novel Private Dancer
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Accurate Portrayal of Bangkok
By Michael Holland
Carl is a long-term expat living in Bangkok and working as a private detective. When a new client comes around asking Carl to find his long lost 'brother', Carl knows something is fishy when the man pays too much too quickly, but he's too busy counting the money to figure out what's really going on. However, when Carl begins to close in on the man he's hunting, it soon becomes clear that he's become entangled in an affair that goes to the very core of Thai society.
Bangkok Rules is a very interesting mystery, set against a very accurate background of modern Bangkok. The observations about Thais and expats is so accurate that this book could well be read as a non-fiction story. The author is obviously a long-term expat as well. However, the level of detail is so great that it might prove to be a bit of a problem for some readers. Little tidbits of information, like why street addresses in Bangkok are almost useless, may make for interesting trivia, but it has no bearing on the story. In a way, it's like the author is trying to prove how knowledgeable he is about Bangkok. Of course, "information dumpers" are one of the common types of expats you'll meet in Bangkok.
The mystery at the heart of the story is quite good, and you won't know until the very end just how Carl will get out of the mess he got himself into.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Bangkok Rules delivers!
By Paul Grieve
Put the words "private investigator" and "Bangkok" in the same book description and you can be sure your novel will get noticed. You can also be sure your core group of readers will open the cover with with lofty expectations. That's no problem for Bangkok Rules by Harlan Wolff, because the book delivers.
Maybe it's because I've personally spent considerable time in Thailand, but the book struck a chord with me. I recognized the people instantly: shady officials, corrupt cops, taxi drivers, burned-out expats and even the "Bangkok Hurricanes." Ever since Murray Head’s song One Night in Bangkok topped the charts in the mid 80's I’ve had a fascination with that most mysterious and vibrant of cities, and Bangkok Rules reawakened the yearning for exotic adventure that let me to Asia in the first place.
The story follows down-on-his-luck private investigator Carl Engel as he goes on a personal mission to bring to justice a depraved serial killer stalking young women in the Thai capital. The problem is, in Thailand justice is a commodity to be bought a sold by the rich and powerful and as he closes in on the killer, Engel realizes he's made the worst kind of enemies.
Engel is the kind of character great series are made of. Like Barry Eisler’s John Rain or John Locke’s Donavan Creed, or even Mikey Spilane’s Mike Hammer, Engel is a hard-edged, life-worn, philosophical man. But unlike some of the other characters, he's less of a hero than an anti-hero. Tearing around Bangkok in his vintage red Porche, Engel comes across as a poor-man's Magnum PI, a deeply flawed man of broken marriages and failed relationships, nostalgic for a time in his youth when he'd fallen in love with, in his own words, "what Thailand could have been like for him".
Ironically, his flaws are precisely what allow Engel to function effectively as a P.I. and ultimately to turn the tables on his dangerous quarry. He understands corruption. Yet, while thirty years spent navigating the seedy underbelly of the city where tough guys tumble have disabused him of anything resembling optimism, he has managed to retain his humanity. The case that causes his life to careen out of control is one he took on at least partially for altruistic reasons (though the thrill of gambling with someone else's money had something to do with it) and the maneuver that propels the story to the climax depends in part on his ultimate belief in the better aspects of human nature (or at least the nature of one of the more obnoxious expats in his milieu).
One suspects that Carl Engel is a rather faithful avatar of the book's author, a notion that gives the book a sheen of authenticity. Having waited until he was 50 to publish his first novel, Harlan Wolff is no doubt a patient man and Bangkok Rules proves that patience is definitely a virtue. Brimming with witty one-liners and pithy observations, the novel is much more than a P.I. thriller in an exotic setting. Voiced via Engel, the observations of how the city has changed over the decades are clearly Wolff's own and indicate a deep understanding of the true struggle of the city's poor. For example, while Wolff (via Engel) laments the corporate takeover of his beloved city of quaint noodle shops and traditional food stands, he knows that such establishments were hardly bastions of happiness and prosperity for the threadbare workers who earned the meagerest of livings keeping them running. A seemingly throw-away paragraph about "a chubby girl with depression's flat feet" reveals Wolff's nuanced grasp of the social conditions that drive the transformation towards an "Orewllian future" (I almost quoted the paragraph here, but, since I'm strongly recommending the book, I'm sure you're going to read it for yourself).
As much as I loved reading Bangkok Rules, I didn't fail to note a few weak points. There are some glaring formatting errors (occasionally different font sizes in different paragraphs) and a number of typos, but I pity the reader who would allow such minor glitches to ruin such a great story. Some of the dialogue could have been a bit more vernacular and more generous contractions would have made it come across more like natural speech. This may not concern a lot of readers, but it jumped out to my editorially trained eyes. What bothered me the most was the way the climax unfolded. It was a great surprise, very well set up and as skillfully executed as the rest of the novel. What I didn't like was the implausibility of some of the exchanges between the characters. I can't be more specific without spoiling the story. Let it suffice to say that it just didn't work as well as I thought it could have, especially given how tightly written the rest of the book was.
Since any criticism of a book's climax has the potential to dissuade readers from buying the book, I have to say the following: don't let my nitpicking deter you. If you like books about Bangkok, private investigators or serial killers, or just like edge-of-your seat thrillers peppered with incisive and witty commentary, you absolutely can't go wrong with Bangkok Rules.
On a personal note, when I emailed Harlan Wolff for a review copy, he replied with words that suggested he was writing another book. I do hope it's the second instalment in the Carl Engel series, because if it is, I can't wait to read it!
21 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Needs editing
By Jo Flowers
I am really, really trying to get through this book. I have read 33% and fear that there is really not enough plot to sustain my interest. I think the author had a good idea for a book, but desperately needed an editor. The "publisher" listed here is Bangkok Ink, which makes me assume that this is another of these self published works. When will budding authors ever learn that it is necessary to learn their craft and that if a real publishing house doesn't want to publish their book, they need to keep working at their craft until they are good enough? This self publishing craze has put so many books out there that really need a guiding hand.
This book had the makings of a good, maybe great, book if it had the proper guidance. Two things stand out in my mind. First, the author feels like he has to tell everyone every single thing about Thailand that he knows. Although his knowledge of Thailand seems to be thorough, it also seems endless. He has to know what to put in to make us understand the characters and the plot and what is excess (and to save it for another book). He also includes endless detail about characters who are introduced for only a couple of paragraphs.
The main problem I have (and this goes directly to having an editor)is that so many sentences start with the name of the main character and are simple declarative sentences. Carl said, Carl walked, Carl thought, Carl drove, Carl read, etc., etc. And it is the sheer repetitiveness of these simple declarative sentences that really starts to annooy.
For example, Chapter 7 starts with this sentence: "Carl woke up on Wednesday morning with the television still pouring out mediocrity". Since Carl is the only character in that scene (and in the previous one), why not, "Wednesday morning, the television was still pouring out mediocrity". Only two sentences later, he opens his mail and the author writes, "Carl was pleased to hear that the target was under surveillance". Why does the author feel compelled to write his name again?
Another two sentences later, in the next paragraph, "Carl looked around the garden and pool and saw that it was empty as usual". How about, "The garden and pool were empty as usual".
I could go on and on and on and list a gajillion other examples, but, hopefully, you get the picture. And, eventually, you keep noticing this over and over again and it takes over your desire to continue reading.
The final thing is that after reading 33% of the book, there is still only the glimmerings of the actual plot and not enough enticement to keep reading. Again, were the book tightened up by an experienced editor, the reader would be thoroughly engrossed in the plot at this point.
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