Free Inspector Zhang And The Dead Thai Gangster by Stephen Leather

and twenty-three,” said Somsak. “Five more died overnight.”
    “Terrible business,” I said.
    “I’ll be there tomorrow with the Public Prosecutor. About nine o’clock. You should come around.”
    “I will,” I said. “Is someone going to be prosecuted?”
    “Hopefully,” said Somsak. “Let’s talk tomorrow.”
    He ended the call.   I didn’t hold out much hope that Jon Junior was in police custody. A farang being arrested was always big news.   A more likely possibility was that he’d been the victim of a crime, but if he’d been badly injured he’d have been in a hospital and if he wasn’t, then why hadn’t he contacted his parents?
    I had tried to be optimistic while I was talking to the Clares, but I was starting to get a bad feeling about Jon Junior’s disappearance.
    A very bad feeling.
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    Stephen Leather is one of the UK’s most successful thriller writers and is published in more than twenty languages. He was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shovelled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing full time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London’s Burning , The Knock and the BBC’s Murder in Mind series, and two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker , were turned into movies. You can find out more from his website at www.stephenleather.com