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9 Gold Bullets: Vincent Calvino Crime Novel by [Christopher G. Moore]

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9 Gold Bullets: Vincent Calvino Crime Novel Kindle Edition

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Book 12 of 15: Vincent Calvino Crime Novel (15 Book Series)

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A priceless collection of 9 gold bullet coins issued during the Reign of Rama V has gone missing along with a Thai coin collector. Local police find a link between the missing Thai coins and Calvino's childhood friend, Josh Stein, who happens to be in Bangkok on an errand for his new Russian client. This old friend and his personal and business entanglements with the Russian underworld take Calvino back to New York, along with Pratt.

The gritty, dark vision of 9 Gold Bullets is tracked through the eyes of a Thai cop operating on a foreign turf, and a private eye expatriated long enough to find himself a stranger in his hometown. As the intrigue behind the missing coins moves between New York andBangkok, and the levels of deception increase, Calvino discovers the true nature of friendship and where he belongs.

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295 pages
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English
Publication date

January 3, 2011
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7 - 12
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697 KB
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"Vinny does it again!." --Bangkok Post

"Moore is a master at leading the reader on to what 'should' be the finale, but then you find it isn't... Worth waiting for... However, do not start reading until you have a few hours to spare."
--Pattaya Mail

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A priceless collection of 9 gold bullet coins issued during the Reign of Rama V has gone missing along with a Thai coin collector. Local policefind a link between the missing Thai coins and Calvino's childhoodfriend, Josh Stein, who happens to be in Bangkok on an errand for hisnew Russian client. This old friend and his personal and businessentanglements with the Russian underworld take Calvino back to New York, along with Pratt.

The gritty, dark vision of 9 Gold Bullets istracked through the eyes of a Thai cop operating on a foreign turf, and a private eye expatriated long enough to find himself a stranger in hishometown. As the intrigue behind the missing coins moves between NewYork and Bangkok, and the levels of deception increase, Calvino discovers the true nature of friendship and where he belongs.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004HYHG7A
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Heaven Lake Press (January 3, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 3, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 697 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 295 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

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- #3,489 in Noir Crime

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Ken C.

A Good One

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2012

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This is my eighth Vincent Calvino novel, and the third in ten days. It is also one of my favorites. Fans of Calvino like the good-hearted PI who understands Thai and the Thai people, well, as well as any farang can. He seems to get into big scrapes that his friend the Thai Police Colonel Pratt often must help him with. They make a good team. In this one, Russians are more involved, and that is as it must be given the influx of Russian mafia into Thailand. What I liked is that author Christopher G. Moore takes the characters to New York for a good part of the novel without missing a beat. The facts of the story are not particularly relevant to a Calvino fan. It is the culture that the author introduces us too and the way it plays with the story. There is often a certain sleight of hand used to fool the reader into thinking things might add up to more than the sum of the parts. In this novel, a significant amount of information is revealed well into the novel. Sure, Calvino did not know it. But, given all of the things he does know, it was a stretch to think that this info got past him. And, are congratulations appropriate for Colonel Pratt? I can't say, but this novel does not end with him fighting gunshot wounds in a Bangkok hospital. That ending, from The Corruptionist, seems to have been forgotten.

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M.H.

Mr. Moore and Calvino Strike Gold

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016

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Christopher G. Moore’s 9 Gold Bullets is an excellent read and I recommend it. Mr. Moore brings together many people, places and events to craft an exciting, captivating and believable Vincent Calvino detective novel that is well worth your time. In 9 Gold Bullets you will follow Vincent Calvino (Vinny) from the corner of Astor and St. Marks in New York City’s Lower East Side on Halloween evening, to the crumbling Lonesome Hawk Bar in Bangkok’s Washington Square as he does his gum shoe work to assemble the facts required to outwit Andrei and Maxim, the two Russian mafia types who are at the center of the crimes. Of course Vincent has help from Ed McPhail, his Washington Square drinking partner, his best friend and Thai police officer Colonel Pratt, his office manager Ratana, and a bar girl named Dew.

Christopher G. Moore builds and describes Vinny’s associates with the same careful and colorful skill he uses to describe Bangkok’s bars, sois and sub-sois. You know the people well, and you are right there in Bangkok. You are right there with Calvino as he enters the Lonesome Hawk Bar in the soon to be dismantled Washington Square with this description:

Even the rats in Washington Square would have agreed that the standards of public health, service and food at the Lonesome Hawk had seen better days. At the bar two or three faces looked like they’d been squeezed out of a caulking gun and left to dry overnight on scaffolding. No one talked. Heads half-bowed over their beers. The waitresses bunched in a corner, picking at a plate of som tam with a ball of sticky rice wedged between their fingers. Calvino walked past Old George’s framed photograph on the wall of ghosts, the display of photos going back decades of men who drank at the bar, told each other lies, grown old and died.

This is my second time reading 9 Gold Bullets, and I will surely read it again. The noir fiction is top rate, the descriptions of people, places and events excellent, and the window into Thai culture is revealing and fascinating. Thank you Christopher G. Moore.

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Michael Rubin

Three Stars, Entertaining But....

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2016

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Entertaining but could have used some tidying up in editing with an occasional jump either in time period or in location causing momentary pauses trying to figure what and how fit in where. As an aside, I read this on Kindle and the transfer can leave out copy breaks or layout indicators informing the reader things are about to change. Also, I like the series but while Moore does a good job (as much as I can tell, having never visited) capturing Thai and Southeast Asian culture and issues, he also leans on overly tidy denouements.

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Terry Peck

An Eastern Drama

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2019

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As always Moore developed an intriguing yarn with a distinctly oriental flavor. The storey is exciting but so complicated I didn't see the plots twists coming. Good read.

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Gordie Howe

Dangerous Duos

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2013

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This pacey convoluted tale of sidekick duos and two cities, Bangkok and New York, will probably be most appreciated by readers who, unlike me, want more "real action" even if much of it concerns Vinny Calvino's backstory with his old best friend, Josh. The more action the less character, but it is a must read for us Moore aficionados nevertheless. Pratt's steadfast loyalty anchors rudderless Calvino against the past and some formidable Russians, but Vinny's insight into the subtleties of Thai bar-girl behaviour save the day.

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Joseph Kohout Jr.

Best Calvino Novel in Quite Some Time! 4 1/2-Stars!

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2011

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Just when I thought it was time for Moore to retire Calvino off to a hammock on some remote island off the coast of Krabi! I have been critical of Moore's last few efforts (likely because of past precedent) and what he does here is pen a story that relies more on real life characterization and less on the "ethereal life of being" (a direction that Moore had frequently fallen into of late). Russian bad guys, adding NYC to the mix and a good old fashion revenge plot, make this the freshest Calvino novel in years! Welcome back Vincent (and Christopher).

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Classic Calvino

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2016

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Nice read.
If you are already a fan, the story will sink you back to Calvino's world easily and comfortably

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graeme p thorne

a fantastic book, would recomend it to anyone

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2014

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a fantastic book,would recomend it to anyone.GR8.