Third in the Land of Smiles Trilogy
ISBN 978-616-7503-49-3
Paperback (B format)
2025, 350 pages
Bullets are flying down the streets of Bangkok. Tuttle is upcountry when he hears Snow's BBC live report with the background sound of M-16 fire direct from the urban battlefield near Sanam Luang. Tuttle, Snow, and Crosby return to HQ - the night-time meeting place on Sukhumvit Road where angels and devils, locals and foreigners, and the living and dead arrive after midnight to lease a few hours of pleasure, to offer up their dreams and desires, and to barter their souls for instant cash.
Through a collage of short stories, documentary films, radio reports, journals, and letters, A Haunting Smile reveals a host of ghosts, drifters, demimondes, arms dealers, journalists, and hardcore expats who are entangled in a world of massacres, wars, computer tank battles, and midnight secret executions. Explore an unfolding universe where neither the living nor the dead escape untouched or unmoved by the events of May 1992.
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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