Two days after private eye Mason sees a drunken Australian kicked to death in Bangkok’s notorious Soi Cowboy, he is approached by one of the men involved. Mobster Raymond Long owns nightclubs on the seedy sex strip and wants Mason to find his American accountant, who has disappeared, taking with her a hard drive from his office. Mason is about to turn him down when he realises the missing accountant is his friend Nathalie West.
A British Army veteran of the Afghan war, Mason has seen his share of conflict - but finding out why Nathalie was secretly working for scum like Raymond Long pushes him to his combat-hardened limits. Mason and his beautiful transgender Thai partner Dixie urgently need to discover why the missing hard drive is so important – and to get to Nathalie before Long’s murderous gang find her. The arrival from Vancouver of a psychotic hitman only adds to tension that mounts all the way to a late night climax on the banks of the Chao Phraya River.
By the author of the critically-praised Yin Yang Tattoo, (Sandstone Press, 2010), Bangkok Cowboy is the first in a series of action-packed Mason & Dixie crime thrillers set within the grimy folds of one of the world’s great cities. Its sequel, BANGKOK BELLE, is now available on Amazon.
WHAT REVIEWERS SAY:
"a ripper of a series - set in Thailand....great characters and a strong sense of society and place." Karen Chisholm, AustCrimeFiction.org (via Twitter)
"Written with incredible pace and verve, BANGKOK COWBOY combines a very good plot with a couple of great central characters." - AustCrimeFiction.org
"From the start of ‘Bangkok Cowboy’ we were gripped..... Set in Bangkok you are pulled into a world of violence and crime. Ron McMillan takes you through a dark and punishing side of Thailand and after reading a few paragraphs you feel a part of the story, a bystander almost." - CrimeBookClub.co.uk
"That Mason and Dixie have their lethal moments is expected and McMillan dishes out the violence with skill, thrills and the right amount of restraint – i.e. not much – but never without good reason." - Iain Millar, Wowasis.com
"....the book’s violence is described with a grace reminiscent of a ballet performance....McMillan tells their stories with panache, bringing to life the dank, humid environment of Bangkok’s seedy underbelly...... McMillan’s gifts as a storyteller are clear..... Fans of the noir genre and of fiction involving expats in Asia should check out Bangkok Cowboy." - Groove Korea Magazine