The Risk of Infidelity Index: A Vincent Calvino Novel

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In the twenty years he has lived in Bangkok, Christopher G. Moore has written nine novels starring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer working as a PI in the steamy Thai capital. Internationally acclaimed, the prize-winning novels have been translated into ten languages, and were first published in North America in 2007, with The Risk of Infidelity Index, the latest in the series. When Calvinos surveillance of a drug piracy ring ends in definitive video evidence, it looks like his fortunes are about to turn. But when Calvinos client dies of a heart attack, and he finds the body of a murdered massage girl downstairs, the authorities get suspicious of the farang in the wrong place at the wrong time, twice. To make matters worse, with the dead man unlikely to pay, Calvino is forced to take on a job he doesnt want, trailing the spouses of three expat housewives who have been rattled by The Risk of Infidelity Index, a handbook that ranks Bangkok as the city where men are most likely to stray. Unfortunately for Calvino, jealous wives tend to be unhappy, regardless of the results, and drug pirates arent the type to play nice.

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"Moore's flashy style successfully captures the dizzying contradictions of this vertiginous landscape." -- Marilyn Stasio
"Underneath Bangkok society is a deeply encrusted demiworld of hope, despair, corruption, and courage that Moore . . . paints with maestrolike Dickensian strokes." -- Tom Plate
"When Americans discover Christopher G. Moore, they're going to strip the bookstores bare of his work. The Risk of Infidelity Index is taut, spooky, intelligent, and beautifully written." -- T. Jefferson Parker