Private Dancer

by Stephen Leather

Often described as the best book ever written about the Bangkok bar scene, Private Dancer has been a huge hit around the world as a downloadable e-book. According to Leather, the e-book has been downloaded from the author's website over 60,000 times in more than forty countries. “I have been getting dozens of emails a week asking for the novel to be published, as most people seem to prefer a book they can hold, and put on their shelves,” explains Leather. “Now that the whole bar scene here is changing, it seemed a good time to finally publish a hard copy.”

The novel is set in Thailand in 1996. Pete, a young travel writer, wanders into a Bangkok bar and meets the love of his life. Pete thinks that Joy is the girl of his dreams: young, stunningly pretty, and one of the top-earning go-go dancers in Nana Plaza. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of sex, drugs, lies and murder, as Pete discovers that his very own private dancer is not all that she claims to be. And that far from being the girl of his dreams, Joy is his own personal nightmare.

The striking cover photograph, of a naked girl holding a cut-throat razor behind her back, was taken in Angelwitch Bar in Nana Plaza and features one of the bar's top showgirls


 
Pub Date: to come| Price: S$22.50 | Paperback (B format) to come
Fiction | ISBN: 978-981-05-3916-0 | Territory: World ex-Thailand
     
Stephen Leather is the author of eighteen thrillers (published by Hodder & Stoughton) that have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including, Soft Target, Hard Landing, Cold Kill and Hot Blood. He has sold over two million books worldwide. Two of his novels, The Bombmaker and The Stretch, have been filmed for television in the UK and he has written for TV shows such as “London's Burning” and the BBC's “Murder In Mind”. He spends his time between Dublin, Ireland, and Bangkok, Thailand.
“The best book regarding relationships with bargirls that you can ever read. This should be compulsory reading for all first-timers to Thailand”
–Pattaya Mail

“A gripping, highly readable thriller that cleverly intertwines the stories of the main two protagonists—bargirl and naked pole dancer Joy and her British, travel guide writing customer/lover Pete”
–The Asian Review of Books

“Expect some bad language and some interesting attitudes to sexuality”
–Expat

“With its conversational, almost confessional style of writing, this titillating novel will have you rushing through it in one night to reach the climatic ending”
–The Straits Times

“Because of all of its local wisdom, Private Dancer ought to be made available to every tourist at port of entry”
–The Bangkok Post