The Risk of Infidelity Index: A Vincent Calvino Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802143983)

In the twenty years he has lived in Bangkok, Christopher G. Moore has written nine novels starring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer working as a PI in the steamy Thai capital. Internationally acclaimed, the prize-winning novels have been translated into ten languages, and were first published in North America in 2007, with The Risk of Infidelity Index, the latest in the series. When Calvino's surveillance of a drug piracy ring ends in definitive video evidence, it looks like his fortunes are about to turn. But when Calvino's client dies of a heart attack, and he finds the body of a murdered massage girl downstairs, the authorities get suspicious of the farang in the wrong place at the wrong time, twice. To make matters worse, with the dead man unlikely to pay, Calvino is forced to take on a job he doesn't want, trailing the spouses of three expat housewives who have been rattled by "The Risk of Infidelity Index," a handbook that ranks Bangkok as the city where men are most likely to stray. Unfortunately for Calvino, jealous wives tend to be unhappy, regardless of the results, and drug pirates aren't the type to play nice.

Author: Christopher G. Moore
ISBN-10: 0802143989
ISBN-13: 9780802143983
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2009
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.75w x 0.91d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/01/2009 pg. 20