Inside a secluded, lush estate on the edge of Pattaya, the body of an eccentric Englishman's gardener is found hanging from a tree. Vincent Calvino—Bangkok's hard-boiled private investigator—is hired to find out why. What begins as a routine case of possible suicide soon unravels into something far darker: the gardener's past is entwined with a secret war being waged in Thailand's drug-infested underworld.

As Calvino follows the trail from the high-walled compounds of the wealthy to the humid backstreets of Pattaya's nightlife, he enters a world ruled by a local warlord whose reach extends into police, politics, and paramilitary networks. The deeper Calvino digs, the more he sees how fragile justice becomes when power and money collide.

When an American Code Orange terrorist alert flashes across intelligence channels, Calvino realizes the threads of his investigation tie directly into global intrigue. A gardener's death becomes the fuse that threatens to ignite an international scandal.

In a story packed with twists, betrayals, and moral ambiguity, Pattaya 24/7 explores the porous boundaries between law and lawlessness, friendship and corruption, illusion and survival. Through Calvino's cynical humor and weary compassion, Christopher G. Moore captures the pulse of modern Thailand—its contradictions, its beauty, and its dangers.

For readers of noir, espionage, and literary crime, Pattaya 24/7 stands as a vivid portrait of Southeast Asia after dark—where the neon glows, secrets multiply, and every truth comes with a price.

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