Toxic Spirits

<p>Toxic Spirits is a highly atmospheric thriller set in Thailand a playground for colorful expats gorgeous women and limitless skullduggery. Narrated with insightful meditations on nature and biodiversity interspersed with macabre violence and dark hilarity the novel is also a brilliant genetics-inspired take on multiculturalism and personal identity. </p><p>Benton a widowed African-American intelligence analyst from Washington retires to Thailand. At an expat bar he is captivated by Siri a beautiful tribal singer. When Siri disappears he discovers that she had been speaking out about the side-effects from drug trials conducted on her hill-tribe. Benton's investigations draw him uncomfortably close to Pierre the seriously disturbed Indo-Cambodian doctor running the trials. Becoming an unwilling guinea-pig in the trials Benton is transformed by the genetically-engineered drugs and falls in love with Mimi a stunning and gifted young Thai-Australian muay thai boxer. As the genetic manipulations spiral out of control spreading to the botanical treasures of Thailand's Golden Triangle the forces of tribal healing high-tech medicine and love battle to determine who will survive.</p>