Dean Barrett

• Jan-2015
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Pop Darrell - a tough ex-cop living in New York City with a terminal heart problem. He and his wife had a pact that when one died the other would follow but a beautiful and terrified Chinese woman pounding on his apartment door interrupts his suicid...

• Sep-2011
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• Mar-2011
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The Boat Girl and the Magic Fish is a tender introduction to one of the lifestyles that has long identified Hong Kong as a place unique in the world. Kum-choi, a boat girl who has grown up on a Chinese junk at sea, must join in the progress and go as...

• Oct-2010
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Scott Sterling is an American detective, ex-CIA Beijing and Bangkok, living over one of the bars in Bangkok frequented by American vets of various wars.

An American woman shows up at the bar; a woman who believes her father, a special forces te...

• Jan-2010
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Declassified! Yes, Americans did fight another secret war in Asia! Now, at last, the long-suppressed details of that controversial war can be told. The setting is Bangkok, Thailand. The time is the mid-sixties. And the events are incredible. Join Who...

• Jan-2010
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Among several exotic and erotic tales of Thailand, readers are introduced to Bangkok's sexiest, most daring and least principled detective, Harry Boroditsky, who solves not one but two bizarre cases including, Murder at the Horny Toad Bar. Hard Bones...

• Nov-2008
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• Sep-2007
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The three short novels in this volume are related not simply by their milieu of Chinese culture but also by how the supernatural world -- or our fears of it -- can dramatically shape events in our daily lives.In Bones of the Chinamen the hellish ...

• Oct-2003
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Running low on funds, ex-CIA agent Scott Sterling moves into an apartment over a Bangkok bar. He teaches scuba diving and does occasional investigative work usually involving missing bargirls or wayward spouses.But he is soon involved in tracking a m...

• Mar-2002
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His name is Liu Chiang-hsin: "a mind as sharp as a sword." But "Chinaman" is the name his friends and contacts use. Chinaman grew up in Beijing during the Mao era and was traumatized by seeing Red Guards beat his scholar-father and drag him off; neve...

• Jul-1999
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Hong Kong and southern China in 1857. An exotic world of crinolines and top hats; opium dens and clipper ships; betrayal and sudden death. Rich in detail, Hangman's Point brings to life a shocking murder, a sensational trial, a mass poisoning. Hon...

• Jul-1999
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A New York publisher who once served in Thailand during the Vietnam War recieves a plea for help from his late brother's Thai widow. When he returns to Thailand after 20 years he finds that the nostalgic portrait he carried of Thailand Past bears lit...