Bangkok is one of the great cities in the world, but unlike other great metropolises it has no noir tales to its name. Bangkok Noir puts that to right. In this first ever noir anthology of Bangkok, twelve seasoned and internationally known Thai and Western writers have come together to make a powerful collection of crime fiction short stories that portray the dark side of this Asian metropolis where the lives of most citizens seem as far away from heaven as its Thai name Krungthep is distant from its meaning City of Angels.
In Bangkok Noir, the twelve short stories of various shades of black involve gangsters and hitmen, love and betrayal, the supernatural, the possessed and the dispossessed, and the far distant future. Titles in this collection include: John Burdett's Gone East, Stephen Leather's Inspector Zhang and the Dead Thai Gangster, Tew Bunnag's The Mistress Wants Her Freedom, Colin Cotterill's Halfhead, Pico Iyer's Thousand and One Nights, and Christopher G. Moore's Dolphin Inc.
- Gone East by John Burdett
- Inspector Zhang and the Dead Thai Gangster by Stephen Leather
- Thousand and One Nights by Pico Iyer
- Halfhead by Colin Cotterill
- Dolphins Inc. by Christopher G. Moore
- The Mistress Wants Her Freedom by Tew Bunnag
- Hansum Man by Timothy Hallinan
- Daylight by Alex Kerr
- Death of a Legend by Dean Barrett
- The Sword by Vasit Dejkunjorn
- The Lunch That Got Away by Eric Stone
- Hot Enough to Kill byCollin Piprell