A review by pauldaly
Breathing Water by Timothy Hallinan

3.0

Much as I like Hallinan’s other characters, burglar Junior Bender in one series and private eye Simeon Grist in the other, I just can’t seem to warm to his main man, writer Poke Rafferty. Or maybe it’s the awfulness of the Bangkok setting, an unreleaved urban jungle with its constant supply of poor women and abandoned feral kids to feed the male adult predators. An honest depiction I’m sure and probably no fiction can match the awfulness of the real city, a place I don’t want to spent much time, whether in the real world or this one.