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Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine. His name is Lord Doyle. His plan- to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau. His game- baccarat punto blanco -- 'that slutty dirty queen of casino ca ...Show more
Bangkok Days by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons - a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, and a stay in a luxury hotel. This title takes us to the place where a blend of ancient Buddhist practice and sexual mores has created a version of modernity only superficially indebted to t ...Show more
Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
Lionel Shriver: "I recommend all of Lawrence Osborne’s novels, especially for fans of Graham Greene or Paul Bowles. Smart and scathing, he’s a natural storyteller with a seductive prose style. I’ve pushed Osborne’s novels on dozens of people. Even in person, the guy doesn’t disappoint: six-foot-and-the ...Show more
Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into each other's lives to devastating effect. When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high ...Show more
Burning Angel and Other Stories by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
The first collection of stories by 'The bastard child of Patricia Highsmith and Graham Greene' (Metro) perfectly showcases Osborne's talent for tension, atmosphere -- and characters out of their depthA naïve young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission by a ...Show more
Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
'A modern Graham Greene' Sunday Times Robert Grieve u pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher u decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand to Cambodia, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall p ...Show more
On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The ForgivenAfter twenty years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to sh ...Show more
On Java Road: 'The bastard child of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith' METRO by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The Forgiven There came a sound of rubber bullets being fired along Java Road and the sad crowing of s ...Show more
Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Philip Marlowe Ser.
The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like under ...Show more
Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Philip Marlowe Ser.
Lionel Shriver: "I recommend all of Lawrence Osborne’s novels, especially for fans of Graham Greene or Paul Bowles. Smart and scathing, he’s a natural storyteller with a seductive prose style. I’ve pushed Osborne’s novels on dozens of people. Even in person, the guy doesn’t disappoint: six-foot-and-the ...Show more