<p>Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is summoned to investigate the most shocking murder of his career. Solving it could mean a promotion but, still reeling from a personal tragedy, Sonchai is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama living in Kathmandu.</p><p>But there are obstacles in Sonchai''s path to enlightenment. Police Colonel Vikorn and Army General Zinna are at war again for control over Bangkok''s network of illegal enterprises - and Tietsin has forty million dollars'' worth of heroin for sale.</p><p>With his life in increasing danger, Sonchai is put to the extreme test in John Burdett''s most inventive, darkly comic and wickedly entertaining novel yet.</p>