chiangmaifalcon
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I started reading mystery The Fourth Watcher by Tim Hallinan. It is set in Bangkok and living in Thailand I decided to pick it up. It is really stupid. First of all, though the author lives in Thailand you could have fooled me. It seems like New York or Cleveland or anywhere but here. Then there is a secret service guy who acts like no one in real life. I worked with plenty of feds in my career and they are all real polite. The guy in this book would not have even made it through academy. Then at one point this spy says the secret service investigates counterfeiting but you would think the treasury dept. would do this. Everyone knows secret service is part of treasury dept., or at least it was. Mybe its in DHS now but still it was always part of treasury. Then there is an 8 year old Thai street kid who speaks English in a more sophisticated manner than my own daughter in US who has 2 masters degrees. Also there is a 6 foot tall Thai girlfriend who runs an agency for high paid maids. All the maids I know of here are very low-paid Burmese illegal immigrants. If you want to know about Thailand, crime or reality, do not read this mishmash.