TY - BOOK AU - Burdett,John TI - The Bangkok asset T2 - Bangkok SN - 9781472151421 U1 - 823.92 23 KW - Sonchai Jitpleecheep (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Police KW - Thailand KW - Bangkok KW - Bangkok (Thailand) KW - Cambodia KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - Suspense fiction N2 - In his latest case, Sonchai is paired with young, female inspector Krom. Like him, she's an outsider on the police force, but she is socially savyy and a technological prodigy. In the midst of a typhoon they witness a deadly demonstration of super-human strength from a man who is seemingly controlled by a CIA operative. Could the Americans really have figured out a way to create some sort of super-soldier who is both physically and psychologically enhanced? Are they testing it, or him, on Thai soil? And why is everyone, from the Bangkok police to the international community, so eager to turn a blind eye? The case takes Sonchai to a hidden Cambodian jungle compound for ageing American vets where he discovers exactly how far a government will go to protect its very worst secrets both past and present ER -