Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather

BooksThailand.com teamed up with Stephen Leather from 'Private Dancer' fame.  Stephen is a top international author who mostly writes big international thrillers, but he likes to stretch himself writing in other genres, and this is where he shot to fame with 'Private Dancer' the story of a doomed relationship with a travel writer and a Thai bargirl.

Stephen has kindly offered the members of BooksThailand the chance to download a PDF version of the novel just click on the picture of the book below to download the fantastic 'Private Dancer' in PDF format.

To see Stephen Leather's other work and read about how he became an author please visit his website.

Stephen's latest book 'Bangkok Bob and the Missing Mormon' will be on sale later this month.  Stephen says: "It is very different from my other books. It's in the first person, shorter than my thrillers, and with a very distinctive voice. It also has an American hero!"

'Bangkok Bob and the Missing Mormon' Excerpt:
She was wearing a lurid Versace silk shirt, had a diamond-studded Rolex watch on her wrist, diamante Gucci sunglasses perched on top of her head and a Louis Vuitton handbag on her lap. She pretty much had all brand name bases covered but she still looked like a fifty-year-old woman with more money than taste. She had brought her large Mercedes to a stop next to a fruit stall and she wound down the passenger side window and waved a ring-encrusted hand at the fruit vendor. I was sitting behind her in a taxi that had only just managed to avoid slamming into her trunk...........

To read more of 'Bangkok Bob and the Missing Mormon' please follow this link.

Stephen's other titles set in Thailand include:

'Live Fire'

Mickey and Mark Moore are Ordinary Decent Criminals, hard men who live by their own code and leaders of a gang that has made millions at the point of a gun. But when Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is sent to infiltrate the tightly-knit team of bank robbers, he discovers that he has more in common with them than he first thought. And that perhaps being a career criminal isn’t the worst thing in the world.

Stephen Says ... "A big chunk of Live Fire is set in Pattaya on the eastern coast of Thailand. I’ve been going to Pattaya for more than twenty years. In the old days it was a quiet seaside place and it was mainly Thais who went there. It’s a two-hour drive from Bangkok and a taxi will take you there for 1,500 baht. It only costs 800 baht to come back, which is one of the many mysteries of the Land of Smiles! In recent years Pattaya has changed – expatriates have flooded in and the Thais tend not to go. It’s become a massive centre for prostitution, with some estimating that there as many as forty thousand prostitutes plying their trade. And criminals from all over the world have set up shop there. There are British villains who’ve moved from the Costa Del Crime, Russian Mafia, Nigerian conmen, Chinese triads, American paedophiles, an endless list of bad guys who now call Pattaya home. It used to be a place where families played on the beach but now it’s a place where thugs go to party and fight."  To Read more follow this link.

'Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye'

Stephen Says ..."A few years ago I bumped into a guy called Warren Olson in a bar in Washington Square in Bangkok. Over a few drinks he told me that he had been a private eye in Bangkok for almost ten years. He was fluent in Thai and Khmer so could get more information from bargirls than the average Westerner. 

I can’t remember whose idea it was but we decided to do a book together, detailing his adventures over the years. Warren had moved back to New Zealand so he’d email me notes on his cases and I’d turn them into stories, changing enough details to protect the innocent and the guilty.

In all we did just over two dozen cases, most of which, it has to be said, involve Warren checking into unfaithful bargirls. It’s different from my regular thrillers but it’s fun and gives you an idea of what a crazy place Thailand can be."  To read more please follow this link.