As
foreigners rush into Myanmar with briefcases stuffed with plans and
cash for hotels, shopping malls and high rises, they discover the old
ways die hard. Vincent Calvino’s case is to find a young British-Thai
man gone missing in Myanmar, while his best friend and protector Colonel
Pratt of the Royal Thai Police has an order to cut off the supply of
cold pills from Myanmar used for the methamphetamine trade in Thailand.
As
one of the most noir novels in the Vincent Calvino series, Missing
in Rangoon plays out beneath the moving shadows of the cross-border
drug barons. Pratt and Calvino’s lives are entangled with the invisible
forces inside the old regime and their allies who continue to play by
their own set of rules.
Praise
“One
interruption of a brilliant piece of fiction is that if one single paragraph
be taken away from the work then the whole story crumbles to dust without
making sense. Writing fiction is about taking away what is not required.
One must chip chip chip away at a rock to uncover a statue. Missing
in Rangoon achieves this. The balance of dialogue, description,
and action is perfect.”
—James
Newman
“An
entertaining and enjoyable sojourn into complex terrain of Rangoon.”
—Robert Kitchin, View from the Bluehouse
“The
story is delicious. Calvino gets a missing person’s case that takes
him to Myanmar (Burma), drugs are involved, and the plot takes several
wonderful twists that keep the reader mesmerized... In our opinion,
some of the best writing in the book concerns the labyrinthine Burmese
legal system and its courts... with an eye for detail [it’s] remarkably
descriptive and enchanting... It’s Moore at his best... Reading a book
like Missing in Rangoon will open up a whole new world of knowledge
that will help the reader to understand the element in the story that
the newspaper — and reporter — dared not reveal.”
—WoWasis
Travelblog
“Missing
in Rangoon is another feather in Moore's cap.”
— Bernard Trink, Bangkok Post
“Moore
is a masterful story teller ... [Missing in Rangoon] is excellent.”
—Lang Reid, Pattaya
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