Slash and Burn Lib/E

Product Description
Can Dr. Siri solve the mystery surrounding a rash of killings before he, too, becomes a victim?

Things have been pretty hectic for Dr. Siri. Now he's off on what he calls a ''therapeutic holiday'' in the mountains with his wife and friends. But sadly, there's no rest for the wicked; with the help of a little blackmail, they are accompanying an American MIA team. Their mission is to discover what happened to a stoned airman downed ten years earlier. Could he have survived? Who is eliminating the last people to have seen him alive? And who, we ask, is lighting the fires that are shrouding the Friendship Hotel in smog? In the remote Plain of Jars, surrounded by a thousand tons of unexploded bombs, Siri and the morgue team have to discover who the killer in their midst is before they, too, become victims.
Review
Praise for the Dr. Siri Paiboun series:

''A series of terrifically beguiling detective novels steeped in local color and history'' --
New York Times Book Review

''Unpredictable . . . Tragically funny and magically sublime.'' --
Entertainment Weekly

''A crack storyteller and an impressive guide to a little-known culture.'' --
Washington Post Book World
About the Author
COLIN COTTERILL was born in London. He has taught in Australia, the United States, and Japan and lived for many years in Laos where he worked for nongovernmental social-service organizations. He now writes full time and lives in Thailand. His books have been Book Sense Picks, and he won the Dilys Award and a Crime Writers' Association Library Dagger for
Thirty-Three Teeth.