Water Heart Expat Professor Searches for Missing Student along the Mekong in Thailand edition by Erich R Sysak Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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An expat American political science professor is found dead in a local catfish pond and most in the expat community suspect suicide. Then one of her graduate students disappears and Bonner sees the connection. Escaping to Thailand is not always paradise.
But it’s the last thing he wants to get involved with. He’d rather open a little coffee shop on campus and enjoy the best SE Asia has to offer. But when an old friend reappears and needs help, Bonner is compelled to change.
He’s forced on a mission up the Mekong River to Laos where he will take on a surprisingly American cargo, two soldiers AWOL from Iraq who followed the old hippie trail as an escape. The Mekong River where they travel holds the secret to a tragic love affair, an old friendship, and a changing Far East.
Water Heart Expat Professor Searches for Missing Student along the Mekong in Thailand edition by Erich R Sysak Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
The beach resort town of Hua Hin is a popular place, both for wealthy Thai and for international tourists. It also has its own community of expatriate academics at Jackley International University. Alas, Jackley is no longer the attractive seat of learning it once was, and Mike Bonner dreams of life outside teaching at the University. Perhaps he could move to a village, and meet more Thai. Perhaps he could open a bookshop or a café.`Coming to Thailand wasn't always for sex tourism or to find a wife, but to end something, a place where you went and never came back.'
Mike's opportunity arises when Jadeeda seeks his help to find her fiancé Brian Palmer. Their investigation is a story of itself: through intrigue, misfortune and some interesting surprises. There are some interesting characters in this novel - including some of those stereotypical expatriates that feature in almost every story of European experience in Asia.
I found Mike Bonner's experiences during the search for Brian Palmer interesting, but what I enjoyed more was the descriptions of Thailand and the restless energy of the people and the Mekong River. The diversity of Thailand, the cultural contrasts and frictions were for me as much a part of the story as Mike Bonner's journey and aspirations.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
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Water Heart Expat Professor Searches for Missing Student along the Mekong in Thailand edition by Erich R Sysak Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
The language, descriptions and overall mood of Water Heart remind me of LeCarre at his best. The story revolves around a suicide and a missing graduate student. Mike Bonner reluctantly agrees to deliver a load of rigged electrical meters up the Mekong River to Laos while a friend from his past copes with imminent death. It is a sophisticated drama that plays out on both symbolic and practical levels.
A complex story about a professor in SE Asia. I've visited and often considered moving there because of the low cost of living and somewhat troubled western economy. The few novels I've read set in Thailand mostly focus on sex tourism and bar girls. And this is certainly part of the Thailand experience, but only a small part. This novel goes much deeper and details the lives of erudite expats who choose to discover new adventures in a far away land. Check it out, a good read.
Although I've visited Bangkok on holiday I still thought the author's description brought out some of the real-life conflicts to show the character of the people in their culture.
This is especially true when Mike meets Jadeeda who asks him to try to help her find her lost lover, Brian. The turns in the plot as they both slowly peel away some of the mysteries surrounding Brian's disappearance, show Jadeeda not only as an individual but also as having something that seems uniquely Thai.
Some of the popular ideas championed by the media that Thailand is little more than an easy opportunity to find a wife or a still easier one to find sex fade away, even if true to an extent, as the reader gets interested in Mike's search for a depth to life greater than that he can find as an academic.
Occasionally it's a little hard, without further qualification/background, to reconcile why some events follow but in all fairness this is entirely compensated for by the scene setting.
With Water Heart, Erich Sysak enters the front ranks of expat novelists writing about Thailand. It's not just that he captures the areas of Hua Hin and Cha'am (he does), or the comedy of errors that is Jackley U (I taught there; he went easy on the place), or the lure of the bar girls and the easy virtue alongside the ubiquity of the Buddha and his devotees; it's that he puts it all together better than all the rest of the pack. The novel has pace, surprise, language, and vision. Some reviewers mention that the book makes them want to return to Thailand; it makes me feel like I never left. Give it a go--you won't be disappointed.
I read the version, which I am hoping was responsible for the errors in punctuation. It was really distracting. The story itself was just "meh." I didn't care for it enough to recommend it to someone.
Nothing beats a murder mystery set in a richly-described far-away land. Especially Thailand, the Land of Smiles. Oh, the characters in this book! How enjoyable! The description, the atmosphere, the tantalizing thrill of almost being there as the novel unfolds...just lovely. Writing style is easy, letting the reader just fall into the story. I never got tired of it, never skipped ahead, just floated along and enjoyed the tale.
The beach resort town of Hua Hin is a popular place, both for wealthy Thai and for international tourists. It also has its own community of expatriate academics at Jackley International University. Alas, Jackley is no longer the attractive seat of learning it once was, and Mike Bonner dreams of life outside teaching at the University. Perhaps he could move to a village, and meet more Thai. Perhaps he could open a bookshop or a café.
`Coming to Thailand wasn't always for sex tourism or to find a wife, but to end something, a place where you went and never came back.'
Mike's opportunity arises when Jadeeda seeks his help to find her fiancé Brian Palmer. Their investigation is a story of itself through intrigue, misfortune and some interesting surprises. There are some interesting characters in this novel - including some of those stereotypical expatriates that feature in almost every story of European experience in Asia.
I found Mike Bonner's experiences during the search for Brian Palmer interesting, but what I enjoyed more was the descriptions of Thailand and the restless energy of the people and the Mekong River. The diversity of Thailand, the cultural contrasts and frictions were for me as much a part of the story as Mike Bonner's journey and aspirations.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
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