They're a pain in the neck because they don't speak Thai so they have to have interpreters." He looked at the corpse. They wanted to keep an eye on the Muslims in the south on the border with Malaysia. The visa has deepened our sense of tragedy, the violent loss of a relatively "Good for two years with multiple reentry thrown in." "Because I didn't know if it was important or not. It disturbs the Colonel too, for he grows pale as he stares at it. The passport is the property of one Mitch Turner. I am not an expert on our occult immigration practices, but the form of his visa disturbs me. I take out the dead farang's passport from the drawer where I found it earlier. I can see Vikorn working himself into a rage with me for dragging him over here. I switch on the air-con, which only serves to cool the stench without diminishing its potency. Inside the room the stench that invariably accompanies a competent disemboweling has grown stronger since my first visit. (Positive-type stutters from the receptionist.) I take the key again, and we mount the stairs. The Colonel switches on his five-thousand-kilowatt charm and hints at what a lucrative future awaits those who know how to keep their mouths shut at a time like this. The receptionist, already oozing servility thanks to the five thousand baht I gave him an hour ago, starts to stutter when he sees Vikorn, who is by way of being emperor of these sois. Salon book critic Laura Miller picks novel Bangkok Tattoo as her top summer read. Summer Reading Picks from Critics, Listeners
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