Why a Booktrail?
2000s: This is a thrilling and fast paced journey through Belgium and Bangkok right up to Phnom Penh -and of course there is plenty of chocolate too.
Phnom Penh Express
What you need to know before your trail
A young Cambodian returns home. Diamonds goes missing. A foreign assassin arrives in Phnom Penh. Phirun is determined to make it as Cambodia’s first chocolate chef. But things don’t go quite as planned when he gets unwittingly caught up in a deadly turf war between rival diamond mafia. Falling in love with a mysterious Khmer-Australian doesn’t help him either.
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In the author note, he writes that Cambodia is a beautiful country with multiple faces but that when written about in the media it is often painted with a less than savoury face of corruption and conflict.
He states that corruption is a problem which affects us all and that living for around 6 years in the country he has never seen serious corruption. His writing this story is to use this perceived view of a beautiful country and inject humour and a more rounded view on a misunderstood country. There’s the buzz and hum of the city, the chocolate of course, the people and the smells – all of this is the real Phnom Penh that he sees and cares for.
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