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For the American travel writer Poke Rafferty, life finally seems to hold some semblance of stability, he & his longtime love, Rose, have gone through with their much deferred marriage ceremony, their adopted daughter, Miaow, once a street child, has become a loving if sometimes difficult member of the family & the three of them live in relative comfort thanks to Rose's housekeeping business and Rafferty's writing.

Then a nightmare figure from Rose's time as a Patpong dancer barges into their world, shattering the peace they've worked so hard to obtain, his appearance threatens everything they cherish, their love, their home, their very lives.

As a foreigner who's seen some of the worst Bangkok has to offer and survived confrontations with Thailand's most powerful and dangerous elements, Rafferty feels equal to most of the challenges Bangkok can throw at him, but now his only hope is to discover the whole truth of Rose's past, a journey down the dark and twisting road that turned a shy, awkward village teenager into the queen of Asia's most lurid red light street, Patpong Road.

Just when Rafferty thought life was looking good, reality comes crashing in as he learns that the secrets from Rose's former life are almost impossible to accept & even harder to survive.

The Queen of Patpong is a terrifying, heart breaking, electrifying story of peril, love, and, ultimately, redemption in modern day Thailand & the most ambitious, affecting novel yet from thriller master Timothy Hallinan.