Thomas Fuller talks with “56-year-old lawyer turned novelist” John Burdett about his “detective thrillers set in Bangkok’s netherworld.”
“Yet his writing is also keenly anthropological. He explains the improbable presence of Buddhist shrines at the entrance to many sex bars. He takes us inside brothels, behind the bar, upstairs into the private rooms and downstairs into the members-only sections of Bangkok’s ‘saunas.’ When Mr. Burdett takes the reader to a red-light district during daylight hours, we trust that a bar might really smell like ‘pine-cleaning fluid blended with stale beer, cigarettes and cheap perfume.’” – from “At Home Amid the Red Lights”, by Thomas Fuller, The New York Times