• The Japan Times named The Fourth Watcher one of 2008’s Best of Asia Books.

• Featuring appealing characters, a driving plot, and infused with the beauty, mystery, and sultry charm of one of the world's most seductive cities, The Queen of Patpong will appeal to fans of John Burdett, Alexander McCall Smith, Daniel Silva, and Alan Furst.

• Harper paperbacks will simultaneously publish the trade paperback edition of Breathing Water.

For American travel-writer Poke Rafferty, life finally seems to have stabilized. He and his long-time love, Rose, have gone through with their much-deferred marriage ceremony, their adopted daughter, Miaow—a former street child—has turned into a complicated and sometimes difficult sixth grader, and the family has reached a semblance of financial security thanks to Poke’s recent book, Living Wrong.

Then a nightmare figure from Rose’s time as a Patpong dancer barges into their world. His appearance threatens everything they cherish: their love, their home, their very lives. As a foreigner who's seen through some of Bangkok’s many veils and survived confrontations with the city’s richest, most powerful, and most dangerous elements, Poke feels equal to most of the challenges Bangkok can throw at him.  But now, his only hope is to discover the whole truth of Rose’s past—a journey into darkness that turned a shy, awkward village teenager into the queen of Asia's most lurid red-light street, Patpong Road.  And there are secrets back there he’s not certain he can truly accept . . . or survive.