His best since Jurassic Park

A deftly-woven tale of corporate skulduggery, media deceit and sleuthing

A first rate thriller

A compulsive page-turner ... Crichton dazzles the reader

It is impossible in a few words to do [it] justice ... It's a huge book, both in size and scope.

Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye

Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence

Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist

Chandler's best novels carry the crime story to levels of artistry that have rarely been matched

Brilliant . . . the story travels at exhilarating speed

'John Burdett is purely and simply a wonderful writer, a genuine grown-up at work in a genre mostly populated by arrested adolescents...Bangkok 8 is a tour de force'

'To say that Bangkok 8 in set in Bangkok is an understatement: it is suffused with the cooking smells, mired in the traffic jams and entangled in the bare limbs of the sex workers... not that the novel is slow going. Bangkok 8 goes from 0 to 60 in about 10 pages'

'Like a modern-day Indiana Jones adventure written by Evelyn Waugh...One of this season's cleverest and most stylish entertainments'

'Engaging, warm, humorous and poignant at the same time'

'This book is amazing . . . A must read'