All about blackmail

Kenny Jones #3

by Warren Olson

In downtown Bangkok there is a Red Room where bad things happen; sometimes consensual, sometimes not. All of it is captured and sold for viewing pleasure.
An elegant Thai woman in her final year as a law student disappears after meeting a handsome DEA agent. Fearing the worst, her wealthy Russian boyfriend pleads with Kenny Jones, Private Detective, to find her. Amidst a backdrop of voyeurism, violence and illicit sex, Kenny wades through the dark undercurrent of the Bangkok night to uncover much more than is openly on show in the red light zone.
The Red Room is based on a real life case file from Thailand’s most famous Private Detective, Warren Olson, and is the third novel in the acclaimed Kenny Jones series

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First published September 26, 2012

About the author

Warren Olson didn't set out to be an author ; nor for that matter did he envisage he would become one of the most well known and successful Western private investigators to operate in South East Asia. After assisting numerous equine establishments in the region, ( he oversaw the SEA Games equestrian events at the Chiang Mai Sports club ) he spent some time as a marketing manager for Hotels in Koh Samui, Bangkok and eventually on the Thai/Cambodian border at Surin. By now fluent in Thai and Khmer, Olson found his services occasionally required by NGO's and Government agencies. This prompted him to found his private investigation company, THAI PRIVATE EYE ; in the mid 1990s. The success of the business grew steadily, as with his contacts and knowledge of the language and people Olson was able to go places/solve problems that few other Westerners could hope to understand or to ever achieve.
Death Threats, being shot at and forced to spend the odd day or two in Thai jails when he got a little too close to corrupt business's were part and parcel of the job ; but when his daughter Natalie was born in 2002, Olson decided he better make plans for a somewhat safer and more mundane lifestyle. A few years later he repatriated to his native New Zealand, where following an interest in Transnational crime he completed a masters degree in Strategic studies and penned an award winning research paper on cross cultural interviewing.
These days he lectures on that subject, writes the occasional book, still advises on some Thai based investigations, maintains his interest in thoroughbreds and does a lot of voluntary work with junior sports and in particular football.
His pride and joy, daughter Natalie is an National age group rep and an acclaimed student ; fully justifying his option to retire from the often dangerous Investigation business in Thailand and to pick up the pen in rather more sedate New Zealand.

Reviews

[James Newman · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Red Room, and the tale that is uncoverd here is a story that is no doubt happening for real in every city all over the world - especially Bangkok. From the case files of Thailand's best known PI this account of a true story finds a high-society young woman who has her future shattered when a night of abandon leads to a world of regret. The stakes are raised as the players raise the game.

This is Olson's strongest book to date, the plot builds carefully and steadily and the charachers are living and breathing with shorter breaths as the plot thickens towards the brilliant climax in the Red Room - A room where the walls have eyes.

[Warren Olson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is being replaced by an updated version.

[Aile Creed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly entertaining and suspenseful from beginning until the end.

[Warren Olson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This version listed for sale without my consent.