Story By Tom Vater
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The Edge Of Darkness
Updated at Apr 28, 2023, 01:57
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Detective Maier Mysteries Collection
Updated at Apr 4, 2023, 00:22
All three books in Tom Vater's 'Detective Maier Mysteries' series, now in one volume! The Cambodian Book Of The Dead : In this thrilling tale, German detective Maier searches for the heir to a coffee empire in the aftermath of Cambodia's war, famine, and genocide. As he delves into the country's dark past, he encounters a cast of intriguing characters, including a scarred woman with a frightening past, a Khmer Rouge general, an expat gangster, an old flame, and a gang of teenage girl assassins. His search leads him to the White Spider, a Nazi war criminal who reigns over an ancient Khmer temple and forces Maier to write his biography - a chilling tale of mass murder that spans from the Cambodian Killing Fields to Europe's concentration camps. The Man With The Golden Mind : In the second book of the Detective Maier Mysteries series, Maier investigates the death of Julia Rendel's father, an East German culture attaché killed in Laos in 1976. However, before he can start his investigation, his client is kidnapped. Following her trail to Vientiane, Maier discovers multiple parties searching for a legendary CIA file containing Cold War secrets and its author, codenamed Weltmeister. Racing against time, Maier delves into his own past to unravel the present, encountering sex, drugs, assassinations, and double-crosses along the way. The Man With The Golden Mind is a gripping thriller packed with action. The Monsoon Ghost Image : In this gripping thriller, Detective Maier investigates the disappearance of a renowned conflict photographer in Thailand, only to find him alive and in possession of a photograph that puts Maier's life in danger. With the CIA, a violent doctor, and a mysterious woman all vying for the photograph, Maier must navigate the dangerous streets of Bangkok and the wild jungles and party islands of southern Thailand to uncover some of the darkest truths of our time and save his life. Dirty pictures, secret wars, and human beasts abound in this action-packed novel.
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The Green Panthers
Updated at Feb 5, 2023, 23:42
Meet Clara Green, Emerald, Chartreuse, Olive, Hunter, Juniper and Forest. They are The Green Panthers: a privately sponsored, multi-national underground army, on a mission to hold corporate polluters to account. During the attempted rescue of a snow leopard hunted by British tycoons in Siberia, the Green Panthers stumble onto Project SILEO, a millionaires’ plot to abandon an overpopulated, dying planet battered by climate change and pollution. But SILEO is a lot more than it seems and the Panthers soon learn of an even greater threat to humanity. From Britain to Thailand and the privately-owned space station Stella Blue, the Panthers race against time to save the human race from a man known only as the Slow King. As riots and unrest take hold all over the world, can they stop the Slow King's apocalyptic ambitions? An action-packed dystopian thriller, The Green Panthers explores systemic corruption, capitalism, space exploration and climate change, as well as the nature of friendship and courage in a future world where everything is for sale.
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Kolkata Noir
Updated at Jan 31, 2023, 01:35
Becker is a British traveler in trouble. Madhurima is a rising star police officer. In these three explosive tales, the two join forces to investigate the city's crooked high society. On the way, they take on deluded would-be messiahs in search of Mother Teresa's stolen millions, encounter fanatics, circus freaks and cannibals, fall in and out of love and pay homage to one of the world's most beautiful and toughest cities. Amidst passion, murder and mayhem, is there room for two lovers driven by justice and compassion? Tom Vater's 'Kolkata Noir' is a riveting crime fiction cycle of three novellas set in the past, the present and the future.
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The Devil's Road To Kathmandu
Updated at Jan 19, 2022, 17:41
In 1976, four friends - Dan, Fred, Tim and Thierry - are on a bus along the hippie trail from London to Kathmandu. But everything is not going according to plan. After a drug deal goes wrong, the boys barely escape with their lives. Thousands of kilometers, numerous acid trips, accidents, nightclubs and a pair of beautiful Siamese twins later, they finally reach the counter-culture capital of the world, Kathmandu, and Fred disappears with the drug money. A quarter-century later, mysterious emails invite the other three to pick up their share of the money, and they decide to reunite in Kathmandu. Soon, a trail of kidnapping and murder leads them across the Roof of the World. With the help of Dan's backpacking son, a tattooed lady and a Buddhist angel, the ageing hippies try to solve a 25-year old mystery that takes them amongst Himalayan peaks, and towards the inevitable showdown with their past.
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