The Bangkok Girl
by
Sean O'Leary
Level Best Books, 2025
Genre: Fiction
Lee Jenson is a schizophrenic Australian private investigator living in Bangkok, Thailand. He is hired by an Australian family to find their missing daughter Zoe who disappeared in Bangkok. When Jenson accepts the case, the reader is in for a surprise. As Jenson acts like a pit-bull with a never give up attitude, he is forced to go against the sex trafficking ring in Thailand, the Yakuza -Japanese mafia and the international network of sex traffickers who use drugs to keep the girls into the business. Does he find Zoe ? Does he fall in love? Who is the Bangkok girl?
Zipping across Bangkok, Tokyo and Hong Kong, effortlessly, the story is told realistically and without judgement. How do tourists become sex slaves? Is it ignorance or something else? It is a strange narrative that there is no exaggeration and you feel almost resigned to the fate of the girls trafficked except the protagonist doesn't give up. Lee is one heck of a character and keeps making you read.
O'Leary narrative style is clean, the writing crisp and well paced as he takes you on a ride filled with twists, turns and surprises. If you want to know who the Bangkok girl is, read the book to find out.
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