New York: Soho, December 2011. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Spine ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. Remainder mark. Not clipped.

Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he's tired of being Laos's national coroner, a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he's pushing eighty, and wants to spend some time with his wife before his untimely death (which has been predicted by the local transvestite fortune teller).

But retirement is not in the cards for Dr. Siri after all. He's dragged into one last job for the Lao government: supervising an excavation for the remains of U.S. fighter pilot who went down in the remote northern Lao jungle ten years earlier. The presence of American soldiers in Laos is a hot-button issue for both the Americans and the Lao involved, and the search party includes high-level politicians and scientists. But one member of the party is found dead, setting off a chain of accidents Dr. Siri suspects are not completely accidental. Everyone is trapped in a cabin in the jungle, and the bodies are starting to pile up. Can Dr. Siri get to the bottom of the MIA pilot's mysterious story before the fortune teller's prediction comes true?

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Colin Cotterill is the Dilys Award-winning author of nine books in the Dr. Siri Paiboun series: The Coroner's Lunch , Thirty-Three Teeth , Disco for the Departed , Anarchy and Old Dogs , Curse of the Pogo Stick , The Merry Misogynist , Love Songs from a Shallow Grave , and Slash & Burn , and The Woman Who Wouldn't Die . He lives in Chumphon, Thailand, with his wife and six deranged dogs.

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Bookseller: Books of the World (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RWARE0000000056
Title: Slash and Burn (Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery, 8)
Author: Colin Cotterill
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 1616951168
ISBN 13: 9781616951160
Publisher: Soho
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: December 2011
Pages: 290
Size: 8vo
Keywords: fiction, historical, medical, mystery, suspense, amateur sleuth, Laos, Lao, Hmong, Siri Paiboun, coroners, physicians, older people
Bookseller catalogs: Laos; Fiction; Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Crime; Asia;

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