Christopher R. Cox

Where in the World?: Thailand Makes for Perfect Crime Film Backdrop

By Christopher R. Cox

February 15, 2013

When it comes to eye-popping landscapes and city streets that evoke exotic, deadly intrigue, Hollywood’s go-to country for Asian locations may very well be Thailand. The kingdom boasts a variety of terrain—everything from thick jungles and vaulting limestone mountains to broad, bone-white beaches and chaotic, neon-drenched urban cores—as well as competent, relatively inexpensive movie crews.…

A Good Death: New Excerpt

By Christopher R. Cox

February 11, 2013

An excerpt of A Good Death the debut novel from Christopher R. Cox (available February 19, 2013). Linda Watts is a beautiful, talented Southeast Asian refugee with a promising career in  finance—or she was, until she turned up dead, the victim of a heroin OD, in a cheap Bangkok guest house. Her death seemed straightforward…

Crime and Lack of Punishment in Thailand

By Christopher R. Cox

January 11, 2013

On the surface, Thailand boasts all the hallmarks of an exotic tropical idyll: white-sand beaches; dramatic limestone mountains; a languid, Buddhist lifestyle. Delve a little deeper and you’ll encounter a more troubling reality—a culture of impunity among the phu yai (literally, “big people”) who are used to having their way, often aided and abetted by…

Bungle in the Jungle: The Case of Donald G. Carr

By Christopher R. Cox

December 26, 2012

Everybody in the world has a double, the saying goes. And for Donald G. Carr, a Green Beret who disappeared in Laos more than 40 years ago, that doppelganger was a German bird smuggler named Gunter Dittrich. The two men—one a war hero missing in action, the other a small-time criminal, are forever linked by…