The Fourth Watcher: A Novel Of Bangkok

The Fourth Watcher: A Novel Of Bangkok Travel writer Poke Rafferty introduced in A NAIL THROUGH THE HEART is almost ready to give up his Looking for Trouble book series which would allow him to stay put in Bangkok with his girlfriend Rose and his newly adopted daughter Miaow. And with any luck Rose will finally agree to marriage. But luck is not in Pokes immediate future a fact that becomes all too apparent when his long lost father Frank who walked out on Poke and his mother when Poke was a child resurfaces bringing trouble with him. And trouble in this case takes the form of the merciless and desperate Colonel Chu whose "retirement" plans have gone up in smoke thanks to Pokes father. Chus priceless rubies that have taken years to amass not to mention the papers that establish a new identity for him have been stolen and Chu will do anything to get them back. When Frank hands them over to Poke for safekeeping he puts Rose and Miaow in frightening danger and getting them out of it will take every skill Poke has at his disposal.