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Authors: Stephen Leather,Warren Olson

Thai Private Eye
by Warren Olson

For more than a decade, the intrepid Warren Olson trawled the mean streets of Bangkok and the lesser-known corners of the Land of Smiles. His brief? To uncover unsavoury truths about Thai bargirl lovers, philandering spouses, insurance fraud and scam artists of various stripes. He was a private eye prying into nooks and crannies few dared to explore and, along the way, he uncovered fascinating secrets of Thais and foreigners engaged in no good.

This volume—the follow-up to Stephen Leather and Warren Olson’s bestselling
Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye
—serves up more juicy portions of what goes on under the veneer in Thailand and includes stories deemed too hot to include in the first book for fear of repercussions. It also includes recent cases, where state-of-the-art surveillance devices and other advances in the dark arts of private investigation have made it easier to uncover dirt deep below the surface. This is a book that reads like exciting fiction, with one big difference: every story is true. Only the names and related identifying details have been changed to protect the innocent along with the guilty. These chronicles of a decade lived dangerously in the Land of Crooked Smiles will, by turns, entertain, shock, inflame and inform you.

About the authors

Stephen Leather is the author of twenty-seven thrillers (published by Hodder & Stoughton) that have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including
Midnight
,
Nightfall
,
Rough Justice
and
Night Fire
. He has sold over two million books worldwide. Two of his novels,
The Bombmaker
and
The Stretch
, have been filmed for television in the UK and he has written for TV shows such as “London’s Burning” and the BBC’s “Murder In Mind”. Stephen Leather is one of the UK’s bestselling ebook authors with ebook-only titles such as
The Basement
,
Once Bitten
and
Dreamer’s Cat
. Learn more about Stephen Leather at:
www.stephenleather.com
.

Warren Olson worked as a horse trainer in New Zealand and Thailand before becoming the marketing manager at a hotel in northeast Thailand. Not only did the hotel boast eighty local ladies in its massage parlour, but the mafia family who owned it imported Russian prostitutes on the side. Olson then successfully reinvented himself as a private detective and worked the bars and back alleys of Bangkok for almost a decade. The company he founded in Bangkok is still open for business. Their website is at
www.thaiprivateeye.com
.

First published in print in 2006 by Monsoon Books

This electronic edition published in 2011 by Monsoon Books

ISBN (epub): 978-981-4358-00-2
ISBN (paperback): 978-981-05-4832-2

Cover photograph©Paul Owen, 2006
Cover design by James Nunn

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

THE CASE OF THE DOUBLE-CROSSED DUTCHMAN

THE CASE OF THE CHRISTIAN CONMAN

THE CASE OF THE RELUCTANT VIRGIN

THE CASE OF THE LESBIAN LOVER

THE CASE OF THE WAYWARD WIFE

THE CASE OF THE LYING BARGIRL