Colin Cotterill: The Night Bastard (Thailand 2000)

From the Publisher:
NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS
The trafficking of children is one of Southeast Asia's major social problems. In this exciting tale, a fiction based on all too real fact, a small unlikely group of heroes faces obstacles and setbacks when they tind themselves up against a corrupt and lethal system exploiting defenseless children.

Pauline Owen has an insatiable appetite for physical pleasures and little time for social work. Against her better judgement, she begins investigating a case which leads her into a corrupt world of human trafficking and matter-of-fact assassinations. Ellis Mahon, a disgraced policeman and Sowanee, an elderly Thai case worker, set off on the trail of various clues which may lead them to the elusive Bamboo Man, the controller of an empire funded from the riches made from sale and abuse of children. But how can you defeat an enemy when you cannot see him, and when he is one of you?

Colin Cotterill has spent twelve years in the Southeast Asian region. He has taught and trained teachers in Laos, Thalland and along the Burmese border. He is a writer and cartoonist for various publications and has produced and directed a forty programma TV series for Thai national television. But his new life, and his most valuable contribution to the region, is his work in child protection. This work he now does full time.

Colin Cotterill: The Night Bastard. Bangkok: Suk's Editions, 2000, ISBN: 9789747457247, 519 p., ?.??.