Gary Alexander, Author Walker & Company $17.95 (2p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5724-1
Armchair detectives who like their adventures set in exotic locales will enjoy this entertaining albeit simplistic novel featuring Supt. Bamsan Kiet, the likable widower who debuted in Pigeon Blood. The police chief of Hickorn, the capital of the...
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Gary Alexander, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-312-03372-9
Bamsan Kiet is police superintendent for the fictional Southeast Asian nation of Luong, a neutralist monarchy nestled amidst China, Burma, Laos and Thailand, and the not-always-eager recipient of benefits from both East and West. When the Golden...
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Gary Alexander, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-07851-5
The sixth Supt. Bamsan Kiet tale, after The Deadly Drought , finds the insightful, introspective police chief traveling from Indochina to Oregon. There Kiet's adjutant, Captain Binh, has apprehended, and lost, an American computer programmer who...
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Gary Alexander, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-05106-8
Luongian Police Chief Bamsan Kiet ( Kiet and the Golden Peacock) is back to outsmart the agents of evil in this witty police caper. Alexander's fictional Southeast Asian nation is beset by an opium war that provides both gangsters and insurgents...
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Gary Alexander, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-06331-3
Social and political satire turns this fifth Superintendent Bamsan Kiet ( Kiet and the Opium War ) adventure into a wry overview of contemporary mores and idioms. Prince Pakse, ruler of the mythical Pacific Rim country of Luong--which is very...
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Gary Alexander, Author Doubleday Books $17 (306p) ISBN 978-0-385-46895-4
The author of six mysteries featuring Inspector Bamsan Kiet of the fictional Indochinese nation of Luong (most recently Kiet Goes West ) changes venue for a new series starring Luis Balam, a Yucatec Maya. Mexican police think they have captured the...
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Gary Alexander. Five Star, $25.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2717-5
In Alexander’s light fourth whodunit featuring standup comic Buster Hightower (after 2012’s Interlock), the unlikely sleuth is caught up in a chase for a fortune in gold. Buster’s girlfriend, Carla, introduces him to blue-blooded Tyler Polk “Tip”...
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Gary Alexander, Author, Alexander Gary, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-385-46896-1
Sacrifice. Balam, full-blooded Maya and part-time detective outside Cancun, is approached by an American, Vance Dugdale, to help set up a theme park called Dead Dinosaurs near Balam's Yucatan village. The PI also hires on as bodyguard for Bob Chance,
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