The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot (A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery)

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After 15 cunning mischievous heartbreaking hilarious eye-opening and atmospheric installments Colin Cotterills award-winning Dr. Siri Paiboun series comes to a close. Make sure you dont 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 diarys 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.