The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot - Colin Cotterill

Category: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: 1970s Doctor Siri Paiboun Laos

Written by Colin Cotterill
Read by Clive Chafer
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot
By: Colin Cotterill
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Series: Doctor Siri Paiboun , Book 15
Release date
02-06-2020
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
7 hrs and 57 mins
Publisher
Recorded Books
Categories
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

After 15 cunning, mischievous, heartbreaking, hilarious, eye-opening, and atmospheric installments, Colin Cotterill’s award-winning Dr. Siri Paiboun series comes to a close. Make sure you don’t miss this last chapter, a deliciously clever puzzle that illuminates the history of World War II in Southeast Asia.

Laos, 1981: When an unofficial mailman drops off a strange bilingual diary, Dr. Siri is intrigued. Half is in Lao, but the other half is in Japanese, which no one Siri knows can read; it appears to have been written during the Second World War. Most mysterious of all, it comes with a note stapled to it: Dr. Siri, we need your help most urgently. But who is “we”, and why have they left no return address?

To the chagrin of his wife and friends, who have to hear him read the diary out loud, Siri embarks on an investigation by examining the text. Though the journal was apparently written by a kamikaze pilot, it is surprisingly dull. Twenty pages in, no one has died, and the pilot never mentions any combat at all. Despite these shortcomings, Siri begins to obsess over the diary’s abrupt ending…and the riddle of why it found its way into his hands. Did the kamikaze pilot ever manage to get off the ground? To find out, he and Madame Daeng will have to hitch a ride south and uncover some of the darkest secrets of the Second World War.

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