ASIA · 1962–1968
A pilot, a diplomat, a journalist.
They work together without telling each other everything.
Even allies have reasons
to leave a case unsolved.
An American pilot, a young diplomat and a French journalist meet in Laos. Over the following years, they search for missing people and investigate deaths in Vietnam, Indonesia and India. A Lao officer, an Indian radio technician and a Vietnamese teacher pursue investigations of their own. Each book tells a complete crime story.
Read Books 1–3 in English and Books 4–6 in German. The covers show the German titles.
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Twenty-four names are on the departure list. Twenty-three men wait beside Garrity’s aircraft. Paymaster Dwight Pruitt is missing. Garrity is sent to find him and establish what happened to the money intended for the Lao army.
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Translator Phan Văn Lộc is found dead in a Saigon canal. The police say he was killed in a robbery. Journalist Marguerite Vernier doubts their account. With Zielinski, she investigates what Lộc heard at a secret meeting — and what he later passed on.
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Owen Hale, a civilian working in American signals intelligence, dies in Saigon. The military police report an enemy attack. His friend Zielinski has doubts: the evening before, Hale had shown him that his intercepts did not confirm the second attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Jakarta, 1965. Zielinski discovers a name added to a list of people to be arrested: Pak Kusno, his Indonesian teacher. As the army rounds up alleged communists, he tries to get his teacher to safety.
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Ravi Kapoor wants to show his colleague Menon what is wrong with an operations report. The next morning, he is found dead at the foot of a storehouse staircase in the Himalayas. Menon starts asking questions. His own signature is on the report.
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Photographer Đỗ Quang Nghi fails to return from an assignment. His wife Hạnh begins looking for him. Weeks later, she recognises him in a photograph said to show an enemy fighter killed in combat. Vernier has the same photograph — obtained before the reported date of his death.
Read German excerptComplete cases, recurring characters.The books follow events from 1962 to 1968 in chronological order.
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Read about the historical setting of each book.
LAOS · AUTUMN 1962
In 1962, Vientiane is the administrative capital of the Kingdom of Laos. Thailand lies across the Mekong. Garrity’s search for the missing paymaster begins at Wattay airfield, taking him across the river and back into the city.
The Geneva agreement of July 1962 provides for a neutral Laos and the withdrawal of foreign military personnel. A commission from India, Canada and Poland is to supervise the withdrawal. Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma heads a coalition of rival factions.
Read an excerptThe first chapter of each book.
Start with The Other Shore or choose a later case.
“Both figures were true,
and only one would
go on record.” FROM THE OTHER SHORE