An intoxicating new novel featuring Sonchai Jitpleecheep, Thai Buddhist detective extraordinaire. Sonchai Jitpleecheep is summoned to investigate the most shocking murder of his career. Solving it could mean a promotion but Sonchai is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama living in Kathmandu. But there are obstacles in Sonchai's path to enlightenment. Police Colonel Vikorn and Army General Zinna are at war for control over Bangkok's network of illegal enterprises - and Tietsin has forty million dollars' worth of heroin for sale.