Bullets are flying in Bangkok.When journalist George Snow's BBC broadcast captures the crack of M-16 fire over Sanam Luang, expatriate writer Robert Tuttle is upcountry, listening in horror. As Bangkok erupts in violence, Tuttle races back to a city on fire - where soldiers turn their guns on civilians, and the air hums with ghosts from every side of Thailand's political divide.In A Haunting Smile, Christopher G. Moore paints an unforgettable portrait of a city-and a generation-on the edge. Through the fragmented voices of short stories, letters, radio reports, and documentary film scripts, he reveals a cast of haunted souls: journalists, arms dealers, drifters, and bar girls caught in a web of moral confusion.At HQ-the legendary Sukhumvit-Road nightspot where angels and devils trade dreams for cash-the living and the dead gather after midnight to barter their desires and bear witness to history's repeating nightmare.Moore's Bangkok noir classic remains one of the few works of fiction to confront the massacre of May 1992, a dark chapter when ordinary citizens faced down tyranny in the streets. Brutal, lyrical, and deeply human, A Haunting Smile is both a ghost story and a moral reckoning for a nation-and a species-forever haunted by its appetite for power. Heaven Lake Press was founded in 1998. The mission is to publish authors whose books focus people, events, culture and history in Southeast Asia. In the past five years, we have been recognized as a publisher of quality books. We put a great deal of care in the production of our books. We have worked with some of Thailand's leading translators and are proud of our relationship with the Thai writing community. We have also have licensed German translations in exciting, modern fiction set in Thailand.Heaven Lake Press is a small team of professionals who run a small Thai publishing house. We have a growing list of authors. Our authors include Canadian, American, Cambodian and Thai writers. We hope to expand our list of authors and titles in the future. Our offices are located in Bangkok. Our hardback and trade paperback books are distributed to leading bookstores in Thailand, including Asia Books, Bookazine, Kinokuniya, B2S, The Book in Phuket, and Suriwong in Chiang Mai. Amarin is our distributor for our Thai language titles which can be found in over 150 bookstores in Thailand.We specialize in fiction - literary and crime fiction, as well as books on history, language, culture and relationships. Our list of non-fiction titles is quickly expanding. We are publishing three memoirs in 2006. Our books are published primarily in the English language, although we have started to publish books translated into the German and Thai languages

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