Why a Booktrail?
1990s: Christopher Moore is a Canadian novelist who has lived in Bangkok for some years. Discovered by a booktrailer in a downtown Vancouver bookshop, this took us places we’d never seen! Now that is a literary journey!
A Killing Smile
What you need to know before your trail
When a successful Los Angeles lawyer loses his wife, he is angry and bitter.
He heads over to Bangkok to confront the man that his wife once loved. The two men form a conflicting yet enveloping relationship. Both men are effectively shipwrecked and lost in a society and culture they really don’t understand and the late night club called HQ brings more disparate characters together such as gangsters,diplomats, pimps and dancers mix every night in the seedier side of the city.
A killing smile is the deadly bite behind the glistening outer smile of the city.
Travel Guide
This could be called a guidebook of sorts to the Thermae clubs that exist in the city.
Not a world familiar with the booktrailers but one which jumps out at you and gives you a good idea of what this place and these people are really like.
The setting is the sleazy side of the city and a sad atmosphere envelopes the whole story. But interestingly the author at the front of the book talks of how the old Thermae is no more and how people from all walks of life walked through its door. What intrigued us was this world of the thermae was like holding a magnifying glass over the human condition and much of it was painful to linger on.
The world of the HQ club itself was a microcosm in the book –
“A place he now referred to for the first time as Headquarters or HQ for short; a coffee shop in the basement of a massage parlour, the Bangkok gate into the night”
The Bangkok gates into the night. All you need to know really.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: A Killing Smile
Destination : Bangkok Author/Guide: Christopher G Moore Departure Time: 1990s
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