Lek had not been directly involved because she had been careful never to get caught alone with him, but others had not been so lucky. Later, it had been police officers who had arrived with the bailiff on behalf of the bank, which was her reason for having to go away and miss the first ten years of her daughter’s life. Later still, in Pattaya, the local police had expected freebies from the bar girls although once again, she had been spared that ignominy due to the intervention of her cousin who actually paid the standard amount of ‘tea money’ to the police every month.
She hated the police, all of them, because as far as her limited knowledge went, there was no reason to suspect that foreign police were any different. Soom and Craig worked on trying to calm her down.
When Maria brought
