Bangkok 8

Author: Burdett, John
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Publication Date: 07/13/04

Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edged a thriller unlike any other.

Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snake a charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras.

Two cops the only two in the city not on the take arrive too late.