The delightful life of a suicide pilot

The delightful life of a suicide pilot

Colin Cotterill
Book - 2020

"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 even 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 ended up in 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 to Thailand and uncover some of the darkest secrets of the Second World War."--

Enregistré dans:

Holdings -

Central

Barcode Status Material Type CallNumber
37413318699800 Disponible Adult Fiction COTTERI
Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cotterill, Colin (Auteur)
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2020]
Collection:Cotterill, Colin. Dr. Siri Paiboun series ; 15.
Sujets:

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 i 4500
001 701668
005 20200723082400.0
008 191108s2020 nyu 000 1 eng
010 |a  2019051328 
020 |a 9781641291774  |q (hardcover) 
020 |a 164129177X  |q (hardcover) 
035 |a (OCoLC)1119520144 
040 |a NIC/DLC  |b eng  |e rda  |c DLC  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCA  |d OCLCF  |d OCL  |d TOH  |d RB0  |d NZAUC 
042 |a pcc 
043 |a a-ls---  |a a-th--- 
082 0 0 |a 823/.914  |2 23 
092 0 |a COTTERI 
100 1 |a Cotterill, Colin,  |e author. 
245 1 4 |a The delightful life of a suicide pilot /  |c Colin Cotterill. 
264 1 |a New York, NY :  |b Soho Press, Inc.,  |c [2020] 
264 4 |c ©2020 
300 |a 279 pages ;  |c 22 cm. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
490 1 |a A Dr. Siri Paiboun investigation set in Laos 
505 0 |a Every Body Has a Story to Tell -- My Friends Call Me Toshi -- Creative Writing -- Tales of the Riverbank -- The Pole Jumper -- How Does She Smell? -- Making Woophi -- The Morning after with an Orangutan -- The Kyoko Protocol -- Enthusiasm is a Hard Lie to Keep Up -- Dear Comrade Pilot -- Empirical Evidence -- An Adorable Alcoholic -- Feet Never Lie -- The Tunnel of Love -- Well, Blow Me Down -- Yokai -- Major Depression -- The Belts Tighten -- The Case of Beer -- Defeat Can Be Confusing -- Wish You Were Here -- Silence Is Golden -- The Torn Pages -- Tomorrow I Rise. 
520 |a "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 even 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 ended up in 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 to Thailand and uncover some of the darkest secrets of the Second World War."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
600 1 0 |a Paiboun, Siri,  |c Doctor (Fictitious character) 
650 0 |a Coroners  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Police  |z Laos  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a World War, 1939-1945  |z Southeast Asia  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Nineteen eighties  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a Laos  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a Thailand  |v Fiction. 
655 7 |a Detective and mystery fiction.  |2 lcgft 
655 7 |a Humorous fiction.  |2 lcgft 
800 1 |a Cotterill, Colin.  |t Dr. Siri Paiboun series ;  |v 15. 
949 |b 37413318699800  |c newafic  |d prta  |e COTTERI  |g it  |h 28.00  |q 1617018 
998 |a 2020.06.04 
999 f f |i 7d669446-1169-5b4d-bc88-81474aeebfbf  |s a08da098-3530-557d-9f90-e8fe608f645f  |t 0 
952 f f |p Standard Circulation  |a City of Spokane  |b Spokane Public Library  |c Branches  |d Central  |t 0  |e COTTERI  |h Other scheme  |i Adult Fiction  |m 37413318699800