A
Haunting Smile, the final novel in the Land of Smiles Trilogy,
is a sharply observed picture interweaving documentary film technique
and montage to convey the psychological horror, personal anguish
and despair of the Black May of 1992 when students, workers, along
with mobile phone carrying yuppies were massacred by the military
on the streets of Bangkok.
Robert
Tuttle and George Snow, running at break neck speed down the back
alleys, hope to find a safe passage out of the nightmare of killing.
The ghosts from old battlefields wander the waterholes of Patpong
mingling among the drifters, demimonde arms dealers and journalists.
Together they enter a matrix where massacres are a way of life,
and the survivors bringing back tales of midnight secret executions.
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Praise
“Courageous
. . . someone to watch.”
—Peter Carey
“A
Haunting Smile is disturbing. Moore jars the senses with discordant
juxtapositions of his now familiar HQ, an all-night coffee shop
where stereotypical ‘hardcore’ (read ‘cured
of romance’) farang hang out, indulging in a never-ending
cycle of alcohol and sex, with the shattering events of Rachadamnoen
Avenue, and what! Virtual reality?”
—Bangkok Post
Foreign
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