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His most recent novel in this series, the bangkok asset, was published on 4 august 2015. John burdett is a former lawyer who worked in hong kong until he found his true vocation as a writer. John burdett ebook in surreal bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as worldclass gangsters, a us marine sergeant is killed inside a locked mercedes by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Burdett now divides his time between bangkok and southwest more about john burdett.
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