Bangkok Burn (Bangkok Series) [Kindle Edition]

Simon Royle (Author)

Book Description

12 May 2010

 A war is taking place on the streets of Bangkok as political cliques fire bullets and rockets at each other.

Mysterious 'Men in Black' snipe combatants from both sides.

It is a good time to settle old scores.

Take a walk on the darkside with Chance. An enigma: family-orientated, loyal and loving... and a cold-blooded killer.... This chilling, high-octane thriller takes you to parts of Bangkok no tourist should ever go, a world where life is cheap and morality non-existent.

Product Details

• File Size: 467 KB
• Print Length: 330 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 6163055020
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: I & I Press (January 11, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B006WMDMI2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,219 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Bangkok really burns January 12, 2012

By Sly

Format:Kindle Edition

A red-hot thriller set against the exotic backdrop of Bangkok, this is a blistering read from start to finish. The hero, or maybe anti-hero, is Chance, a farang (foreigner) and an orphan who was raised by a Bangkok mafia family. Though he wants out of a life of crime to keep the love of his life, Pim, that proves difficult when he is variously double-crossed, blown up, shot at and dropped off cliffs.

Meanwhile, a war is taking place in the streets of Bangkok as political cliques fire bullets and rockets at each other. The real culture and current affairs of the country are every bit as vital to this novel as the characters, and as vibrant and challenging as the plot.

Written by a man who clearly has an intimate knowledge of Bangkok, from its elite down to its underbelly, you will wonder how much of Chance's story is true. You'll also sweat every heart-stopping moment with him, every heart-breaking revelation, every shock and wound incurred by his attempts to save his family and discover the astonishing truth.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Love the setting! March 7, 2012

By Jenni Gate

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this book because I was intrigued by the setting, having myself lived overseas for years. I loved the descriptions of Bangkok and Thailand in general, and I was intrigued by the plot. The story is good, and the characters are pretty well fleshed out. I thought the writing was very good in places and lacking in others. The Kindle version I read had several places where sentence structure was spotty, as if the book had been written in a hurry and not edited as carefully as it should. This pulled me out of the story in a few places, but wasn't so distracting as to make me put it down. I continued reading because it was fast paced and I wanted to know what happened. I did have one moment of total disconnect with the main character, but I enjoyed the story and would read another from this author.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Really great gangster thriller. January 24, 2012

By stasike

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

One of the best books I have read in quite a long time.
Bangkok burn is a contemporary thriller set in a very exotic location. I liked the complex plot, the fast pace of the book and all those interesting facts about Bangkok [under]life. I very much liked the fact that you can't predict what is going to happen next. The very likable main villain Chance uses Twitter, throw-away mobile phones, logs from mobile towers and other modern technology, together with old-fashioned guns -*lots* of 'em - or even much older "technology" - crocodile pit #51. The story takes place during recent riots in Bangkok.
The author lives in Bangkok and obviously knows this town and country very well.
The book is plain mobi (.azw file), well formatted, not infested in DRM and the number of devices is not limited.

More About the Author

Simon Royle was born in Manchester, England in 1963. He has been variously a yachtsman, advertising executive, and a senior management executive in software companies. A futurist and a technologist, he lives in Bangkok, with his wife and two children.

Simon's first two novels Tag, and Bangkok Burn, have been well received by Amazon readers.

Tag is a technothriller set in the year 2109. What readers have called,

- "more futuristic than science-fiction, and the technological advances of 2110 are not far-fetched, they are easily imaginable."

- "...in "Tag." The technology felt like a logical evolution from today to one hundred years into the future."

- ""Tag," reminds me a bit of one my childhood favorite authors, Isaac Asimov, in that he's written a book that projects a future reflecting very plausible cultural and political scenario, given what trends we've seen in history."
(Above quotes stolen from recent reviews on Amazon US).

As Simon, says :), "With 'Tag' I drew on my travels and experiences in Singapore and Australia. Extrapolating from things I see today and placing them in the context of our world a hundred years from now."

Bangkok Burn - a noir thriller, set during the May 2010 riots in Bangkok, has proved a hit with readers; especially those who have traveled to Thailand.

- "A red-hot thriller set against the exotic backdrop of Bangkok, this is a blistering read from start to finish."

- "I loved this book from beginning to end, it kept me hooked and on the edge of my seat the whole way through. I can't wait for the sequel." (Author's note: "I'm working on it...")

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Looking forward to hear from you,

Simon