The Bangkok Girl
A Lee Jenson Novel
by Sean O’Leary
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Pub Date Jul 15 2025 | Archive Date Sep 30 2025
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Description
Zoe, a young Australian girl travels from Bangkok to Tokyo for work. She goes missing. Trafficked by the Yakuza into sex work.
Bangkok-based, Australian PI, Lee Jenson is hired to find her. He travels to Tokyo for the first time as Zoe did. Following her timeline. He hits a brick wall, gets bashed by gangsters and finds the cultural differences hard to fathom. He is a stranger in a strange town.
One thing about Jenson though, he never gives up. But can he find Zoe as the Yakuza move her from place to place, before she’s lost forever. From Bangkok to Tokyo to Hong Kong and back to Bangkok, Lee Jenson battles his own demons and the feared Yakuza to try and bring Zoe home.
A Note From the Publisher
eBook: 9798898200060
Advance Praise
“O’Leary’s The Bangkok Girl is a fascinating take on the classic PI novel. Exotic settings, a twisty plot, and a detective who carries a burden most of us will never understand.”
—Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of Blind to Midnight
“O'Leary seduces with a story as tantalizing as Thailand itself. P.I. Lee Jenson is a man with a past searching for a woman without a future. The more he looks, the more nothing seems to fit. The perilous trips through Bangkok's underbelly of corruption and sex-trafficking to the Yakuza world of Japan and back will have you looking over your shoulder even while rooting for Lee. O'Leary delivers an exciting ride through the violence and vice of Southeast Asia with a satisfying payoff.”
—Phillip Thompson, best-selling author of NOT DEAD ENOUGH.
"Non-stop action and riveting international intrigue makes this one helluva novel not to be missed."
—Terrence McCauley, Award-winning, bestselling author of The University Series and THE TWILIGHT TOWN
"A look at exotic and hot Bangkok and the bowels of Tokyo and Hong Kong way down deep, at the fists and guns and girls and Yakuza level. Rapid-fire dialogue and hard-hitting missing person recovery work. And it's Australian PI Lee Jenson with an 'o' so don't you forget it. Something tells me you won't. A fast-paced, satisfying noir read."
— Chris Bauer, author of I HEARD YOU PAINT COWBOYS and the Max Fend Maximum Risk series.
"Bangkok Girl is a thrilling journey through the streets of Bangkok and Tokyo, populated with a cast of noir characters worthy of classic stories in the genre. Detective Lee Jenson navigates this territory like a "knight in blood-caked armor," his hidden vulnerabilities no match for his determination to get at the truth. If I ever go missing, call Lee in on the case, because I know he won't give up 'til he finds me—even if it takes more than one night in Bangkok!"
—Nevada McPherson-author of Poser, Cracker and Baller
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9798898200053 |
PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
PAGES | 234 |