John Burdett, author of The Godfather of Kathmandu discusses pop-eyed aggressive giant maniacs in top hats, prescribes a means for developing the most honest police force in Southeast Asia, describes why Mario Puzo is a personal hero and lets Mick know what’s even better than good sex. An unruly email interview, March 2010.
John Burdett’s Bangkok series first burst upon the crime reading world in 2003 with the publication of Bangkok 8. The fourth, The Godfather of Kathmandu,is now published in the UK (28 January 2010, Bantam Press, Transworld, £12.99).This remarkable quartet of crime novels, in which Western materialism comes face to face with the spiritual approach of the East, has won universal plaudits.
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