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The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot: Dr. Siri Paiboun Mysteries Series, Book 15
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Cotterill, Colin
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Chafer, Clive
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Dr. Paiboun novels volume 15.
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Laos, 1981: When an unofficial mailman drops off a strange bilingual diary, Dr. Siri is intrigued. Half is in Lao,
but the other half is in Japanese, which no one Siri knows can read; it appears to have been written during the Second
World War. Most mysterious of all, it comes with a note stapled to it: Dr. Siri, we need your help most urgently. But who
is "we," and why have they left no return address? To the chagrin of his wife and friends, who have to hear him read the diary out loud, Siri embarks on an investigation
by examining the text. Though the journal was apparently written by a kamikaze pilot, it is surprisingly dull. Twenty
pages in, no one has died, and the pilot never mentions any combat at all. Despite these shortcomings, Siri begins to
obsess over the diary's abrupt ending ... and the riddle of why it found its way into his hands. Did the kamikaze pilot
ever manage to get off the ground? To find out, he and Madame Daeng will have to hitch a ride south and uncover
some of the darkest secrets of the Second World War.
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Street Date:
10/01/2020
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ISBN:
9781980098461
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Colin Cotterill. (2020). The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot: Dr. Siri Paiboun Mysteries Series, Book 15. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

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Colin Cotterill. 2020. The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot: Dr. Siri Paiboun Mysteries Series, Book 15. Recorded Books, Inc.

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Colin Cotterill, The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot: Dr. Siri Paiboun Mysteries Series, Book 15. Recorded Books, Inc, 2020.

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