John Burdett (writer)

John Burdett , actually John Patrick Burdett (born July 24, 1951 in Southampton ), is an English writer.

Life

Burdett studied law and also worked as a lawyer for some time. He lived in Hong Kong for over ten years and worked there for a British company, and for some time also in the British colonial administration. He later went into business for himself as a lawyer in Hong Kong. When he had successfully debuted with his first novel A Private Affair and his second novel The Last Days of Hong Kong also promised to be a success, he devoted himself only to writing.

Burdett is divorced and has a daughter.

reception

Burdett invented the protagonist Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police , a devout Buddhist. His four novels (they are to be continued) are set in and around Bangkok and are located in the red light districts of Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy . The current (2010) novel of it ( The godfather of Kathmandu ) quotes Mario Puzo's novel The godfather with its title .

This cycle of novels about Sonchai Jitpleecheep should also be made into a film. The director James McTeigue was engaged for the filming of the first novel ( The Jade Rider ); but this film does not seem to have been made.

Works

Without Sonchai Jitpleecheep

• A private affair ( A Personal History of Thirst ). Piper, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-492-22946-8
• The Last Days of Hong Kong ( The Last Six Million Seconds ). Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-24131-X

Sonchai-Jitpleecheep cycle

• The Jade Rider ( Bangkok 8 ). Piper, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-04600-2
• Bangkok-Tattoo ( Bangkok Tattoo ): Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-492-04856-9
• The Buddhist Monk ( Bangkok Haunts ). Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25756-5
• The godfather of Kathmandu . Knopf, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-307-26319-3

literature

• Thomas Fuller: At home amid the red lights . In: The New York Times, October 25, 2007
• Richard Lipez: A Thai's Winnig Ways . In: The Washington Post, June 13, 2006

Web links

• Homepage of the author
• Literature by and about John Burdett in the catalog of the German National Library