Timothy Hallinan

The birth of Poke and Rose’s newborn son has littered their small apartment with emotional land mines. At the same time, the most cantankerous member of the small gang of Old Bangkok Hands who hang out at the Expat Bar suddenly goes missing....

Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch....

It's three days until Christmas and Junior Bender, Hollywood's fast-talking fixer for the felonious, is up to his ears in shopping mall Santas, Russian mobsters, desperate holiday shoppers....

Junior Bender is back to untangle one of the weirdest mysteries in Tinseltown....

There are not many people brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood’s scariest mob boss turned movie king....

For a fee so big he can't turn it down, Simeon Grist is hired to watchdog the kind of guy he'd usually prefer to throw through the nearest window....

It's everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley's top "executive crook", sets up a hit....

Timothy Hallinan returns us to the Bangkok of The Queen of Patpong and further lays bare the seediest industry in Thailand....

Back when Poke Rafferty first arrived in Bangkok to write a travel guide, some of the old-timers in the Expat Bar on Patpong Road helped him make sense of the city....

In Bangkok, Thailand, an American travel journalist and his Thai family find themselves inadvertently entangled in a web of dirty cops and far-reaching corruption....

Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family. But trouble comes calling....

American travel writer Poke Rafferty has seen - and survived - some of the worst Bangkok has to offer....

A poker game nets American ex-pat writer Poke Rafferty the "opportunity" to write the biography of Khun Pan, a self-made billionaire with a criminal past and far-reaching political ambitions....

An accidental collision on a Bangkok sidewalk goes very wrong when the man who ran into Rafferty dies in his arms, but not before saying three words.....

The author of the Looking for Trouble travel book series, Poke Rafferty is ready to settle down in Bangkok. But trouble isn't ready to let him go....

Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is in the middle of burgling a house and has just gotten his hands on one of the world's rarest stamps when the job goes terrifically wrong....