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2000s: The Patpong area of the city is not a place to walk alone..
The Queen of Patpong
What you need to know before your trail
American travel writer Poke Rafferty, finally feels that he’s getting his life back on track. He and longterm love, Rose, are now finally married and their daughter, a child adopted from the streets make their home complete.
But someone from Rose’s past is back – someone from her past as a Patpong dancer barges into their world, shattering the peace they’ve worked so hard to obtain.
Rafferty has seen some of the worst Bangkok has to offer and survived confrontations with Thailand’s most powerful and dangerous elements, but he’s now got to look into something much closer to home – of Rose’s past.
But once you open the pandora’s box, can you ever really avoid what’s inside?
Travel Guide
Bangkok
Talk about a journey down the dark and twisting road that turned a shy, awkward village teenager into the queen of Asia’s most lurid red-light street: Patpong Road.
Patpong Road is the reddest of red in the right light district – this is not a study of that area however but one of a misunderstood community in the streets of a larger city, metropolis. One hidden in plain sight, snubbed in the daylight but sneakily used at night.
The markets and the streets are a cacophony of chaos and sound – smells which hum off the page and humidity that makes you wipe your brow as you turn the pages.
There are references throughout to Shakespeare’s The Tempest….danger and foreboding and references ‘anon’
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Queen of Patpong
Author/Guide: Timothy Hallinan Destination: Bangkok Departure Time: 2000s
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