By tfawcus
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British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout.
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By tfawcus
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Chapter 1 summary
While on her honeymoon in Thailand, Ayesha bargains for a set of panpipes with Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker. He accepts less than their true value as he has made no sales all day and is hungry. Later, his friend, Somchai, a street food vendor, persuades him to apply for a job at an elephant lodge near the tourist resort. Bapit doesn't hold out much hope but arrives to find an elephant called Abharamu has broken loose and injured her mahout. Bapit knows Abharamu from years earlier when he was a child and his parents worked at the lodge. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. The exploit turns him into a tourist attraction. People flock to hear him play his panpipes to the elephant.  Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is ruined by her husband's physical abuse. One day during a particularly vicious argument, she pushes him away from her. He falls and hits his head. She panics, leaves him for dead, and boards a tourist bus which happens to be going to the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her. She needs a drink to steady her nerves but is struck by the realisation she is without money. That, on top of everything else, is too much for her and she passes out. Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout.
Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Major Suttikul, Chief of Police Lieutenant Kamul, his assistant |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-3
While on her honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, an Australian tourist called Ayesha buys a set of panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker. He accepts less than their value as he has sold nothing all day and is hungry. This seems to be the story of his life. His friend, Somchai, a street food vendor, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. The story spreads, and tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics, rushes out of the resort, and leaps aboard a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she canâ??t return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchaiâ??s house. The following morning, on his way to the market, Somchai learns that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. Always one for the main chance, he helps her by selling her gold necklace but takes a hefty commission. Bapit invites Ayesha to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayeshaâ??who is disguised with a hajib covering her faceâ??use the contestantsâ?? entrance and are not discovered. Ayesha places a sizeable bet on Klahan. British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Major Suttikul, Chief of Police Lieutenant Kamul, his assistant |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-4
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, an Australian tourist called Ayesha buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, his friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. Somchai helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is becoming enamoured. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts him. Meanwhile, Ayesha is unaware of her impending police arrest. Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Major Suttikul, Chief of Police Lieutenant Kamul, his assistant British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-5
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, an Australian tourist called Ayesha buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, his friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. Somchai helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is becoming enamoured. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts him. Meanwhile, Ayesha is unaware that the police are closing in on her. Nor, as it turns out, do she and Bapit know why. Two days earlier, Major Suttkul had made it his business to be first at the scene of Bruno's reported death. It transpires that Bruno is not dead after all, but that he was knocked unconscious. He and the major have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it gives the major a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. However, they need Ayesha to identify the body first so that a death certificate can be issued. This involves a complex subterfuge. Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Major Suttikul, Chief of Police Lieutenant Kamul, his assistant British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. * The notorious Bangkok Hilton - a rat-infested women's jail in the Thai capital where violence among inmates is rife and suicides are commonplace. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-6
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, an Australian tourist called Ayesha buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, his friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. Somchai helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is becoming enamoured. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, he wakes with a thumping hangover and a deep sense of shame. Stumbling forward to throw up in the gutter, he misses his footing and lurches into the path of an oncoming car. It transpires that Bruno is not dead after all, but that he was knocked unconscious. He and the major have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed but needs to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. Ayesha believes that Bapit has betrayed her to the police, but can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Major Suttikul, Chief of Police Lieutenant Kamul, his assistant British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-7
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, an Australian tourist called Ayesha buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, his friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. Somchai helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is becoming enamoured. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, he wakes with a thumping hangover and a deep sense of shame. Stumbling forward to throw up in the gutter, he misses his footing and lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and the major have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. She believes that Bapit was the one who betrayed her to the police, but when she hears that he has been hit by a car, she is distraught. However, the hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him. Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Major Suttikul, Chief of Police Lieutenant Kamul, his assistant British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-8
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, an Australian tourist called Ayesha buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, his friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. Somchai helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is becoming enamoured. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, he wakes with a thumping hangover and a deep sense of shame. Stumbling forward to throw up in the gutter, he misses his footing and lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and the major have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears that he has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her that Bapit's leg has been amputated. Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Major Suttikul, Chief of Police Lieutenant Kamul, his assistant British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-9
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, an Australian tourist called Ayesha buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, his friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. Somchai helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is becoming enamoured. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and the major have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her his leg has been amputated. After Bruno's funeral, returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Major Suttikul, Chief of Police Lieutenant Kamul, his assistant Johnno and Carl, two of Bruno's accomplices British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-10
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, an Australian tourist called Ayesha buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, his friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. Somchai helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is becoming enamoured. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and the major have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her his leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Major Suttikul, Chief of Police Lieutenant Kamul, his assistant Johnno and Carl, two of Bruno's accomplices British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-11
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. Somchai helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is becoming enamoured. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and the major have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. Cast of Main Characters Ayesha, a wealthy tourist on her honeymoon in Thailand Bruno, her husband Bapit, a beach hawker selling panpipes Klahan, his younger brother, a Muay Thai boxer Somchai, his friend, a street food vendor Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Major Suttikul, Chief of Police Lieutenant Kamul, his assistant British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-12
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. She returns to Thailand to spend more time with Bapit, but things don't go as she expects. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's fallen in love with Bapit Bapit, a beach hawker and panpipe player, who met with an accident and lost his leg Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Abhamaru, an elephant Bapit has known since he was a child Chanin, Abhamaru's mahout British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-12
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. She returns to Thailand to spend more time with Bapit. She wants to help him but has to confront his stubbornness and pride. They visit the elephant lodge and discover that Chanarong has had a stroke and Chanin is still abusing Abhamaru. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's fallen in love with Bapit Bapit, a beach hawker and panpipe player, who met with an accident and lost his leg Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Somchai, a street trader and friend of Bapit's British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-14
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. She returns to Thailand to spend more time with Bapit. She wants to help him but has to confront his stubbornness and pride. They visit the elephant lodge and discover that Chanarong has had a stroke and Chanin is still abusing Abhamaru. They wonder why Chanarong doesn't fire him. The answer, as Somchai later explains to Ayesha, is that Chanin's father has a part stake in the lodge. Bapit suggests Ayesha should buy Abhamaru out of her misery and forget about buying him a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg. At first, she thinks the suggestion absurd, but then she starts to think about it. That evening she receives an email from Bruno's ex-financial advisor, Johnno, asking her to return to Sydney to discuss future investment options for her fortune. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's fallen in love with Bapit Bapit, a beach hawker and panpipe player, who met with an accident and lost his leg Chanarong, owner of an elephant lodge Somchai, a street trader and friend of Bapit's British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Link to 'Love and Bananas' film: https://shorturl.at/dCQV2
Summary of Chapters 1-15 While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. She returns to Thailand to spend more time with Bapit. She wants to help him but has to confront his stubbornness and pride. They visit the elephant lodge and discover that Chanarong has had a stroke and Chanin is still abusing Abhamaru. They wonder why Chanarong doesn't fire him. The answer, as Somchai later explains to Ayesha, is that Chanin's father has a part stake in the lodge. Bapit suggests Ayesha should buy Abhamaru out of her misery and forget about buying him a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg. At first, she thinks the suggestion absurd, but then she starts to think about it. That evening she receives an email from Bruno's ex-financial advisor, Johnno, asking her to return to Sydney to discuss future investment options for her fortune. The following day she discovers Chanarong has been rushed to hospital with another stroke and that Bapit has picked up a staph infection that has entered his bloodstream. As she cannot visit either of them for several days, she books a flight to Sydney to sort out her financial affairs. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's in love with a Thai musician called Bapit Johnno, an ex-partner of Ayesha's husband, and his financial advisor Steve Kraft, a lawyer British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
* Kings Cross, for many years Sydney's red-light district, is known for its bars, restaurants and nightlife.
Summary of Chapters 1-16 While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. She returns to Thailand to spend more time with Bapit. She wants to help him but has to confront his stubbornness and pride. They visit the elephant lodge and discover that Chanarong has had a stroke and Chanin is still abusing Abhamaru. They wonder why Chanarong doesn't fire him. The answer, as Somchai later explains to Ayesha, is that Chanin's father has a part stake in the lodge. Bapit suggests Ayesha should buy Abhamaru out of her misery and forget about buying him a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg. At first, she thinks the suggestion absurd, but then she starts to think about it. That evening she receives an email from Bruno's ex-financial advisor, Johnno, asking her to return to Sydney to discuss future investment options for her fortune. The following day she discovers Chanarong has been rushed to hospital with another stroke and that Bapit has picked up a staph infection that has entered his bloodstream. As she cannot visit either of them for several days, she books a flight to Sydney to sort out her financial affairs. When she gets to Sydney, she puts Johnno in his place and terminates his position as her financial advisor. Then she visits the firm of lawyers handling Bruno's deceased estate and meets with Steve Kraft, the junior partner, intending to set up a charitable trust to buy Chanerang's trekking lodge and turn it into an elephant sanctuary. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's in love with a Thai musician called Bapit Tammy (aka Cupcake), an old school friend of Ayesha's Ken Suttle, the lawyer dealing with Bruno's estate Steve Kraft, his partner in the firm of Kraft & Suttle British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-17
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. She returns to Thailand to spend more time with Bapit. She wants to help him but has to confront his stubbornness and pride. They visit the elephant lodge and discover that Chanarong has had a stroke and Chanin is still abusing Abhamaru. They wonder why Chanarong doesn't fire him. The answer, as Somchai later explains to Ayesha, is that Chanin's father has a part stake in the lodge. Bapit suggests Ayesha should buy Abhamaru out of her misery and forget about buying him a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg. At first, she thinks the suggestion absurd, but then she starts to think about it. That evening she receives an email from Bruno's ex-financial advisor, Johnno, asking her to return to Sydney to discuss future investment options for her fortune. The following day she discovers Chanarong has been rushed to hospital with another stroke and that Bapit has picked up a staph infection that has entered his bloodstream. As she cannot visit either of them for several days, she books a flight to Sydney to sort out her financial affairs. When she gets to Sydney, she puts Johnno in his place and terminates his position as her financial advisor. Then she visits the firm of lawyers handling Bruno's deceased estate and meets with Steve Kraft, the junior partner, intending to set up a charitable trust to buy Chanerang's trekking lodge and turn it into an elephant sanctuary. They lunch together and he presents her with some options. Afterwards, she rings an old school friend and arranges to meet her later at the Opera House for a performance of The Magic Flute, followed by a few drinks in Sydney's nightlife area. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's in love with a Thai musician called Bapit Tammy (aka Cupcake), an old school friend of Ayesha's British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-18
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and bullies the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. She returns to Thailand to spend more time with Bapit. She wants to help him but has to confront his stubbornness and pride. They visit the elephant lodge and discover that Chanarong has had a stroke and Chanin is still abusing Abhamaru. They wonder why Chanarong doesn't fire him. The answer, as Somchai later explains to Ayesha, is that Chanin's father has a part stake in the lodge. Bapit suggests Ayesha should buy Abhamaru out of her misery and forget about buying him a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg. At first, she thinks the suggestion absurd, but then she starts to think about it. That evening she receives an email from Bruno's ex-financial advisor, Johnno, asking her to return to Sydney to discuss future investment options for her fortune. The following day she discovers Chanarong has been rushed to hospital with another stroke and that Bapit has picked up a staph infection that has entered his bloodstream. As she cannot visit either of them for several days, she books a flight to Sydney to sort out her financial affairs. When she gets to Sydney, she puts Johnno in his place and terminates his position as her financial advisor. Then she visits the firm of lawyers handling Bruno's deceased estate and meets with Steve Kraft, the junior partner, intending to set up a charitable trust to buy Chanerang's trekking lodge and turn it into an elephant sanctuary. They lunch together and he presents her with some options. Afterwards, she rings Tammy, an old school friend, and arranges to meet her later at the Opera House for a performance of The Magic Flute, followed by a few drinks in Sydney's nightlife area. After the show, she and Tammy get slightly blotto in Dulcie's Bar, where they are accosted by two of Johnno's henchmen. With the aid of the management, they manage to get away. The following morning, Ayesha has a huge hangover and is extremely nervous after her narrow escape. She reads news of an arm being washed up on a beach near Manly. There is a ring engraved BD on one of its fingers. This gives her a start, but she knows Bruno died in Thailand and decides it's just a coincidence. She thinks it is important to liquidate shares that had been jointly held with Bruno and deposit the proceeds safely out of Johnno's reach and arranges a meeting with the stockbroker. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's in love with a Thai musician called Bapit Hubert Dallmore, her ex-husband's stockbroker Steve Kraft and Ken Suttle, lawyers British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-19
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and coerces the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. However, Johnno is released because of lack of evidence. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. She returns to Thailand to spend more time with Bapit. She wants to help him but has to confront his stubbornness and pride. They visit the elephant lodge and discover that Chanarong has had a stroke and Chanin is still abusing Abhamaru. They wonder why Chanarong doesn't fire him. The answer, as Somchai later explains to Ayesha, is that Chanin's father has a part stake in the lodge. Bapit suggests Ayesha should buy Abhamaru out of her misery and forget about buying him a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg. At first, she thinks the suggestion absurd, but then she starts to think about it. That evening she receives an email from Bruno's ex-financial advisor, Johnno, asking her to return to Sydney to discuss future investment options for her fortune. The following day she discovers Chanarong has been rushed to hospital with another stroke and that Bapit has picked up a staph infection that has entered his bloodstream. As she cannot visit either of them for several days, she books a flight to Sydney to sort out her financial affairs. When she gets to Sydney, she puts Johnno in his place and terminates his position as her financial advisor. Then she visits the firm of lawyers handling Bruno's deceased estate and meets with Steve Kraft, the junior partner, intending to set up a charitable trust to buy Chanerang's trekking lodge and turn it into an elephant sanctuary. They lunch together and he presents her with some options. Afterwards, she rings Tammy, an old school friend, and arranges to meet her later at the Opera House for a performance of The Magic Flute, followed by a few drinks in Sydney's nightlife area. After the show, she and Tammy get slightly blotto in Dulcie's Bar, where they are accosted by two of Johnno's henchmen. With the aid of the management, they manage to get away. The following morning, Ayesha has a huge hangover and is extremely nervous after her narrow escape. She reads news of an arm being washed up on a beach near Manly. There is a ring engraved BD on one of its fingers. This gives her a start, but she knows Bruno died in Thailand and decides it's just a coincidence. She thinks it is important to liquidate shares that had been jointly held with Bruno and deposit the proceeds safely out of Johnno's reach and she arranges a meeting with the stockbroker. The broker tries to dissuade her, but she's adamant. However, nothing can be done until she produces a certified copy of Bruno's death certificate. For this, she needs to go back to her lawyers. When she leaves the brokers, she's being followed. Johnno is badly rattled by the discovery of Bruno's ring, but realises Ayesha is the only person who can positively identify it. He needs to make sure she doesn't go to the police. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's in love with a Thai musician called Bapit Steve Kraft, her lawyer British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-20
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and coerces the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. However, Johnno is released because of lack of evidence. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. While in Thailand, she spends more time with Bapit. She wants to help him but has to confront his stubbornness and pride. They visit the elephant lodge and discover that Chanarong has had a stroke and Chanin is still abusing Abhamaru. They wonder why Chanarong doesn't fire him. The answer, as Somchai later explains to Ayesha, is that Chanin's father has a part stake in the lodge. Bapit suggests Ayesha should buy Abhamaru out of her misery and forget about buying him a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg. At first, she considers the suggestion absurd, but then she starts to think about it. That evening she receives an email from Bruno's ex-financial advisor, Johnno, asking her to return to Sydney to discuss future investment options for her fortune. The following day she discovers Chanarong has been rushed to hospital with another stroke and that Bapit has picked up a staph infection that has entered his bloodstream. As she cannot visit either of them for several days, she books a flight to Sydney to sort out her financial affairs. When she gets to Sydney, she puts Johnno in his place and terminates his position as her financial advisor. Then she visits the firm of lawyers handling Bruno's deceased estate and meets with Steve Kraft, the junior partner, intending to set up a charitable trust to buy Chanerang's trekking lodge and turn it into an elephant sanctuary. They lunch together and he presents her with some options. Afterwards, she rings Tammy, an old school friend, and arranges to meet her later at the Opera House for a performance of The Magic Flute, followed by a few drinks in Sydney's nightlife area. After the show, she and Tammy get slightly blotto in Dulcie's Bar, where they are accosted by two of Johnno's henchmen. With the aid of the management, they manage to get away. The following morning, Ayesha has a huge hangover and is extremely nervous after her narrow escape. She reads news of an arm being washed up on a beach near Manly. There is a ring engraved BD on one of its fingers. This gives her a start, but she knows Bruno died in Thailand and decides it's just a coincidence. She thinks it is important to liquidate shares that had been jointly held with Bruno and deposit the proceeds safely out of Johnno's reach and she arranges a meeting with the stockbroker. The broker tries to dissuade her, but she's adamant. However, nothing can be done until she produces a certified copy of Bruno's death certificate. For this, she needs to go back to her lawyers. When she leaves the brokers, she's being followed. Johnno has been badly rattled by the discovery of Bruno's ring, but realises Ayesha is the only person who can positively identify it. He needs to make sure she doesn't go to the police. When she gets back to Steve, she tells him about being followed and he offers to escort her to a nearby police station to make a report. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's in love with a Thai musician called Bapit Steve Kraft, her lawyer Jimmy and Dave, two henchmen of Johnno, a crooked financial advisor and drug dealer British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-21
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker who is struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises they are wanted by the police but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and coerces the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. However, Johnno is released because of lack of evidence. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. While in Thailand, she spends more time with Bapit. She wants to help him but has to confront his stubbornness and pride. They visit the elephant lodge and discover that Chanarong has had a stroke and Chanin is still abusing Abhamaru. They wonder why Chanarong doesn't fire him. The answer, as Somchai later explains to Ayesha, is that Chanin's father has a part stake in the lodge. Bapit suggests Ayesha should buy Abhamaru out of her misery and forget about buying him a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg. At first, she considers the suggestion absurd, but then she starts to think about it. That evening she receives an email from Bruno's ex-financial advisor, Johnno, asking her to return to Sydney to discuss future investment options for her fortune. The following day she discovers Chanarong has been rushed to hospital with another stroke and that Bapit has picked up a staph infection that has entered his bloodstream. As she cannot visit either of them for several days, she books a flight to Sydney to sort out her financial affairs. When she gets to Sydney, she puts Johnno in his place and terminates his position as her financial advisor. Then she visits the firm of lawyers handling Bruno's deceased estate and meets with Steve Kraft, the junior partner, intending to set up a charitable trust to buy Chanerang's trekking lodge and turn it into an elephant sanctuary. They lunch together and he presents her with some options. Afterwards, she rings Tammy, an old school friend, and arranges to meet her later at the Opera House for a performance of The Magic Flute, followed by a few drinks in Sydney's nightlife area. After the show, she and Tammy get slightly blotto in Dulcie's Bar, where they are accosted by two of Johnno's henchmen. With the aid of the management, they manage to get away. The following morning, Ayesha has a huge hangover and is extremely nervous after her narrow escape. She reads news of an arm being washed up on a beach near Manly. There is a ring engraved BD on one of its fingers. This gives her a start, but she knows Bruno died in Thailand and decides it's just a coincidence. She thinks it is important to liquidate shares that had been jointly held with Bruno and deposit the proceeds safely out of Johnno's reach and she arranges a meeting with the stockbroker. The broker tries to dissuade her, but she's adamant. However, nothing can be done until she produces a certified copy of Bruno's death certificate. For this, she needs to go back to her lawyers. When she leaves the brokers, she's being followed. Johnno has been badly rattled by the discovery of Bruno's ring, but realises Ayesha is the only person who can positively identify it. He needs to make sure she doesn't go to the police. When she gets back to Steve, she tells him about being followed and he offers to escort her to a nearby police station to make a report. They are followed and set upon by two of Johnno's henchmen. However, they manage to escape. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's in love with a Thai musician called Bapit Steve Kraft, her lawyer Jimmy and Dave, two henchmen of Johnno, a crooked financial advisor and drug dealer British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-22
While on honeymoon in a Thai beach resort, Ayesha, an Australian tourist, buys some panpipes from Bapit, a happy-go-lucky beach hawker struggling to make ends meet. Subsequently, Bapit's friend, Somchai, persuades him to apply for a job at the elephant lodge. He arrives to find an elephant has broken loose and injured her mahout. He calms her by playing his panpipes and is offered a job caring for her until her mahout recovers. Tourists flock to hear him play his pipes to Abharamu, the elephant. Meanwhile, Ayesha's honeymoon is going badly. Her husband, Bruno, is abusive. One day, while repelling his advances, she pushes him. He falls and hits his head. She panics and flees on a tourist bus bound for the elephant lodge. She hears Bapit's panpipes and recognises him. However, delayed shock overtakes her, and she passes out. Bapit takes pity on her, and since she can't return to the tourist resort, he arranges for her to spend the night at Somchai's house. The following morning, Somchai learns from the newspaper that Bruno is dead and that the police are searching for Ayesha. He helps her out of self-interest. Bapit does so because he is besotted. He invites her to watch his brother, Klahan, in his first professional bout as a kickboxer. The police are watching the stadium, but Bapit and Ayesha use the contestants' entrance and are not discovered. After the boxing, they visit the Paradise Complex, an area renowned for its gay bars. She suggests they spend the rest of the night in a nearby hotel. The night porter realises the police want them but decides not to inform on them until morning. Bapit is out of his depth and decides to take his cue from a TV drama and act the macho male. Ayesha is distraught when he forces himself on her. She knees him in the balls and shuts herself in the bathroom. He is mortified, climbs down the fire escape, and gets drunk in a gay bar. A gorilla of a man abducts and sodomises him. The next morning, heavily hungover, he lurches into the path of an oncoming car. Meanwhile, we discover that Bruno is not dead but was only knocked unconscious. He and Major Suttikul, the Chief of Police, have been working together in a drug smuggling operation. Officers of the Narcotics Control Board are closing in on them. Bruno's reported death is a godsend, for it provides a way of getting him out of the country unnoticed. The major organises a make-up artist to give Bruno a deathly pallor and coerces the doctor into anaesthetising him before Ayesha is brought in to identify the body. A death certificate is signed and the major arranges for it to be countersigned by the Examining Magistrate. The hapless make-up artist is murdered and replaces Bruno in the coffin before it is taken to a local temple for cremation. Ayesha can't understand why the major is being so solicitous and not pursuing the suspicious circumstances of Bruno's death with her. She is unaware of the subterfuge. When she hears Bapit has been hit by a car, she is distraught. The hospital staff won't give out any information or let her see him, but Klahan turns up at the funeral and tells her Bapit's leg has been amputated. After Bruno's 'funeral', Ayesha returns to Australia with the cremation ashes, unaware that the major has switched urns and that she is carrying 2.5 kg of heroin. The Drug Squad knows about the smuggling and is shadowing her, hoping she will lead them to the bigger operators in Sydney. Meanwhile, Bruno is in Sydney, thinking all has gone according to plan. He goes game fishing with his mate, Johnno, but suffers a delayed reaction to his concussion and dies on board. Johnno consigns his body to the sharks. He and Bruno's other associates are arrested for drug smuggling. Major Suttikul is also arrested for his complicity in the scheme. However, Johnno is released because of lack of evidence. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she will be an extremely wealthy widow when probate is declared. While in Thailand, she spends more time with Bapit. She wants to help him but has to confront his stubbornness and pride. They visit the elephant lodge and discover that Chanarong has had a stroke and Chanin is still abusing Abhamaru. They wonder why Chanarong doesn't fire him. The answer, as Somchai later explains to Ayesha, is that Chanin's father has a part stake in the lodge. Bapit suggests Ayesha should buy Abhamaru out of her misery and forget about buying him a state-of-the-art prosthetic leg. At first, she considers the suggestion absurd, but then she starts to think about it. That evening she receives an email from Bruno's ex-financial advisor, Johnno, asking her to return to Sydney to discuss future investment options for her fortune. The following day she discovers Chanarong has been rushed to hospital with another stroke and that Bapit has picked up a staph infection that has entered his bloodstream. As she cannot visit either of them for several days, she books a flight to Sydney to sort out her financial affairs. When she gets to Sydney, she puts Johnno in his place and terminates his position as her financial advisor. Then she visits the firm of lawyers handling Bruno's deceased estate and meets with Steve Kraft, the junior partner, intending to set up a charitable trust to buy Chanerang's trekking lodge and turn it into an elephant sanctuary. They lunch together and he presents her with some options. Afterwards, she rings Tammy, an old school friend, and arranges to meet her later at the Opera House for a performance of The Magic Flute, followed by a few drinks in Sydney's nightlife area. After the show, she and Tammy get slightly blotto in Dulcie's Bar, where they are accosted by two of Johnno's henchmen. With the aid of the management, they manage to get away. The following morning, Ayesha has a huge hangover and is extremely nervous after her narrow escape. She reads news of an arm being washed up on a beach near Manly. There is a ring engraved BD on one of its fingers. This gives her a start, but she knows Bruno died in Thailand and decides it's just a coincidence. She thinks it is important to liquidate shares that had been jointly held with Bruno and deposit the proceeds safely out of Johnno's reach and she arranges a meeting with the stockbroker. The broker tries to dissuade her, but she's adamant. However, nothing can be done until she produces a certified copy of Bruno's death certificate. For this, she needs to go back to her lawyers. When she leaves the brokers, she's being followed. Johnno has been badly rattled by the discovery of Bruno's ring, but realises Ayesha is the only person who can positively identify it. He needs to make sure she doesn't go to the police. When she gets back to Steve, she tells him about being followed and he offers to escort her to a nearby police station to make a report. They are followed and set upon by two of Johnno's henchmen. They escape, but Steve is apprehended by the police for carrying an offensive weapon (a knife he'd taken from his assailant). However, they sort things out, and Steve escorts Ayesha back to her hotel. Main Characters in this chapter Ayesha, a wealthy Australian tourist who's in love with a Thai musician called Bapit Steve Kraft, her lawyer Somchai, a Thai street hawker and friend of Bapit's Chanarong, owner of an elephant trekking lodge in Kata British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
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Summary of Chapters 1-23
Ayesha, an Australian tourist, is on honeymoon in Thailand with Bruno, her rich and abusive new husband. One day, she repels his attack, and he loses his balance, hitting his head when he falls. Thinking she has killed him, she flees on a tourist coach going to an elephant trekking lodge. She meets Bapit there, a beach hawker who had previously sold her a set of panpipes. She is in a panic because she has no money on her. Bapit is now working at the lodge, looking after a badly abused elephant called Abhamaru. Tourists are fascinated when he plays his panpipes to soothe the elephant. When he learns of her predicament, he suggests that, until she can find a better alternative, she can stay with his friend, Somchai, a street hawker who can rent her a room. Bapit falls for Ayesha and they go to watch his brother in a kickboxing match. She is disguised in a hijab and they evade the police, who are searching for her. They end up in a hotel together, but his idea of romance is gauche. She throws him out. He gets drunk in a gay bar and is subsequently ruthlessly sodomised. Meanwhile, the hotel night porter informs on them, and Ayesha is arrested by the police in the morning. When Bapit comes around, he is alone, hungover, and filled with shame. He stumbles into the road, is hit by a car, and his leg has to be amputated. Ayesha is distraught when she finds out. It turns out that Bruno was only concussed. He and Suttikul, the Chief of Police, are engaged in a drug smuggling operation. However, the drug squad are closing in, and Suttikul needs to get Bruno out of the country fast. He stages an elaborate deception making Bruno appear to be dead and gets Ayesha to identify the body. He arranges a funeral and cremation, using another body. The urns are then swapped, and Ayesha ends up unknowingly carrying an urn full of heroin back to Australia. The drug squad is aware of the deception and lets the urn through, hoping to catch bigger fish at the Sydney end of the operation. Bruno turns up in Sydney under an assumed name. He goes fishing with his financial advisor and partner in crime, Johnno, but he dies from the result of a delayed concussion while hauling in a big fish. Realising how awkward it would be to explain Bruno's second death, Johnno throws his body to the sharks. However, sometime later, an arm is washed ashore with Bruno's wedding ring on its finger. Major Suttikul is arrested, as are some of the Sydney gang. However, Johnno is released again because of a lack of evidence. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she is now an extremely wealthy widow. She decides to use the money to rescue Abhamaru. The owner of the elephant lodge, Chanarong, has had a stroke, and she hopes to be able to buy the lodge and repurpose it as a sanctuary. She returns to Sydney, where Johnno tries to persuade her to let him invest Bruno's fortune for her. She declines and arranges for her lawyer, a young man called Steve, to investigate setting up a charitable foundation with the money. Johnno is after her, both because he wants the money and to prevent her from identifying Bruno's ring, but she escapes and flees back to Thailand. Characters in this chapter: Ayesha, a rich widow Somchai, a street hawker Bapit, an elephant whisperer Dr Chalita Suriyan, Bapit's physician Chanarong, the owner of an elephant trekking lodge Runrat, his business associate British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
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Summary of Chapters 1-24
Ayesha, an Australian tourist, is on honeymoon in Thailand with Bruno, her rich and abusive new husband. One day, she repels his attack, and he loses his balance, hitting his head when he falls. Thinking she has killed him, she flees on a tourist coach going to an elephant trekking lodge. She meets Bapit there, a beach hawker who had previously sold her a set of panpipes. She is in a panic because she has no money on her. Bapit is now working at the lodge, looking after a badly abused elephant called Abhamaru. Tourists are fascinated when he plays his panpipes to soothe the elephant. When he learns of her predicament, he suggests that, until she can find a better alternative, she can stay with his friend, Somchai, a street hawker who can rent her a room. Bapit falls for Ayesha and they go to watch his brother in a kickboxing match. She is disguised in a hijab and they evade the police, who are searching for her. They end up in a hotel together, but his idea of romance is gauche. She throws him out. He gets drunk in a gay bar and is subsequently ruthlessly sodomised. Meanwhile, the hotel night porter informs on them, and Ayesha is arrested by the police in the morning. When Bapit comes around, he is alone, hungover, and filled with shame. He stumbles into the road, is hit by a car, and his leg has to be amputated. Ayesha is distraught when she finds out. It turns out that Bruno was only concussed. He and Suttikul, the Chief of Police, are engaged in a drug smuggling operation. However, the drug squad are closing in, and Suttikul needs to get Bruno out of the country fast. He stages an elaborate deception making Bruno appear to be dead and gets Ayesha to identify the body. He arranges a funeral and cremation, using another body. The urns are then swapped, and Ayesha ends up unknowingly carrying an urn full of heroin back to Australia. The drug squad is aware of the deception and lets the urn through, hoping to catch bigger fish at the Sydney end of the operation. Bruno turns up in Sydney under an assumed name. He goes fishing with his financial advisor and partner in crime, Johnno, but he dies from the result of a delayed concussion while hauling in a big fish. Realising how awkward it would be to explain Bruno's second death, Johnno throws his body to the sharks. However, sometime later, an arm is washed ashore with Bruno's wedding ring on its finger. Major Suttikul is arrested, as are some of the Sydney gang. However, Johnno is released again because of a lack of evidence. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she is now an extremely wealthy widow. She decides to use the money to rescue Abhamaru. The owner of the elephant lodge, Chanarong, has had a stroke, and she hopes to be able to buy the lodge and repurpose it as a sanctuary. She returns to Sydney, where Johnno tries to persuade her to let him invest Bruno's fortune for her. She declines and arranges for her lawyer, a young man called Steve, to investigate setting up a charitable foundation with the money. Johnno is after her, both because he wants the money and to prevent her from identifying Bruno's ring, but she escapes and flees back to Thailand. Characters in this chapter: Ayesha, a rich Australian widow Chanin, Runrot's son, a mahout at the trekking lodge Major Kamul, Chief of Police in Phuket British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
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Summary of Chapters 1-25
Ayesha, an Australian tourist, is on honeymoon in Thailand with Bruno, her rich and abusive new husband. One day, she repels his attack, and he loses his balance, hitting his head when he falls. Thinking she has killed him, she flees on a tourist coach going to an elephant trekking lodge. She meets Bapit there, a beach hawker who had previously sold her a set of panpipes. She is in a panic because she has no money on her. Bapit is now working at the lodge, looking after a badly abused elephant called Abhamaru. Tourists are fascinated when he plays his panpipes to soothe the elephant. When he learns of her predicament, he suggests that, until she can find a better alternative, she can stay with his friend, Somchai, a street hawker who can rent her a room. Bapit falls for Ayesha and they go to watch his brother in a kickboxing match. She is disguised in a hijab and they evade the police, who are searching for her. They end up in a hotel together, but his idea of romance is gauche. She throws him out. He gets drunk in a gay bar and is subsequently ruthlessly sodomised. Meanwhile, the hotel night porter informs on them, and Ayesha is arrested by the police in the morning. When Bapit comes around, he is alone, hungover, and filled with shame. He stumbles into the road, is hit by a car, and his leg has to be amputated. Ayesha is distraught when she finds out. It turns out that Bruno was only concussed. He and Suttikul, the Chief of Police, are engaged in a drug smuggling operation. However, the drug squad are closing in, and Suttikul needs to get Bruno out of the country fast. He stages an elaborate deception making Bruno appear to be dead and gets Ayesha to identify the body. He arranges a funeral and cremation, using another body. The urns are then swapped, and Ayesha ends up unknowingly carrying an urn full of heroin back to Australia. The drug squad is aware of the deception and lets the urn through, hoping to catch bigger fish at the Sydney end of the operation. Bruno turns up in Sydney under an assumed name. He goes fishing with his financial advisor and partner in crime, Johnno, but he dies from the result of a delayed concussion while hauling in a big fish. Realising how awkward it would be to explain Bruno's second death, Johnno throws his body to the sharks. However, sometime later, an arm is washed ashore with Bruno's wedding ring on its finger. Major Suttikul is arrested, as are some of the Sydney gang. However, Johnno is released again because of a lack of evidence. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she is now an extremely wealthy widow. She decides to use the money to rescue Abhamaru. The owner of the elephant lodge, Chanarong, has had a stroke, and she hopes to be able to buy the lodge and repurpose it as a sanctuary. She returns to Sydney, where Johnno tries to persuade her to let him invest Bruno's fortune for her. She declines and arranges for her lawyer, a young man called Steve, to investigate setting up a charitable foundation with the money. Johnno is after her because he wants the money and to prevent her from identifying Bruno's ring, but she escapes and flees back to Thailand, where she is assaulted and robbed by Chanin. Characters in this chapter: Ayesha, a rich Australian widow Chanerong, owner of an elephant trekking lodge in Phuket Chanin, Runrot's son, a mahout at the trekking lodge Somchai, a Street Hawker Major Kamul, Chief of Police in Phuket Steve Kraft and Ken Suttle - Ayesha's solicitors British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
By tfawcus
Author Notes |
Summary of Chapters 1-26
Ayesha is an Australian tourist, initially on honeymoon in Thailand with Bruno, her rich and abusive husband. One day, she repels his attack, and he loses his balance, hitting his head when he falls. Thinking she has killed him, she flees on a tourist coach going to an elephant trekking lodge where she meets Bapit, a beach hawker who had previously sold her a set of panpipes. She is in a panic because she has no money on her. Bapit is now working at the lodge, looking after a badly abused elephant called Abhamaru. Tourists are fascinated when he plays his panpipes to soothe the elephant. When he learns of her predicament, he suggests that, until she can find a better alternative, she can stay with his friend, Somchai, a street hawker who can rent her a room. Bapit falls for Ayesha and they go to watch his brother in a kickboxing match. She is disguised in a hijab and they evade the police, who are searching for her. They end up in a hotel together, but his idea of romance is gauche. She throws him out. He gets drunk in a gay bar and is subsequently ruthlessly sodomised. Meanwhile, the hotel night porter informs on them, and Ayesha is arrested by the police in the morning. When Bapit comes around, he is alone, hungover, and filled with shame. He stumbles into the road, is hit by a car, and his leg has to be amputated. Ayesha is distraught when she finds out. It turns out that Bruno was only concussed. He and Suttikul, the Chief of Police, are engaged in a drug smuggling operation. However, the drug squad are closing in, and Suttikul needs to get Bruno out of the country fast. He stages an elaborate deception making Bruno appear to be dead and gets Ayesha to identify the body. He arranges a funeral and cremation, using another body. The urns are then swapped, and Ayesha ends up unknowingly carrying an urn full of heroin back to Australia. The drug squad is aware of the deception and lets the urn through, hoping to catch bigger fish at the Sydney end of the operation. Bruno turns up in Sydney under an assumed name. He goes fishing with his financial advisor and partner in crime, Johnno, but he dies from the result of a delayed concussion while hauling in a big fish. Realising how awkward it would be to explain Bruno's second death, Johnno throws his body to the sharks. However, sometime later, an arm is washed ashore with Bruno's wedding ring on its finger. Major Suttikul is arrested, as are some of the Sydney gang. However, Johnno is released again because of a lack of evidence. Ayesha knows nothing of this. She renews her visa and returns to Phuket, where she helps Bapit through the first stages of his rehabilitation while he teaches her how to play the panpipes. The lawyers in Sydney handling Bruno's estate inform her that she is now an extremely wealthy widow. She decides to use the money to rescue Abhamaru. The owner of the elephant lodge, Chanarong, has had a stroke, and she hopes to be able to buy the lodge and repurpose it as a sanctuary. She returns to Sydney, where Johnno tries to persuade her to let him invest Bruno's fortune for her. She declines and arranges for her lawyer, a young man called Steve, to investigate setting up a charitable foundation with the money. Johnno is after her because he wants the money and to prevent her from identifying Bruno's ring, but she escapes and flees back to Thailand, where she is assaulted and robbed by Chanin. Characters in this chapter: Ayesha, a rich Australian widow Chanerong, owner of an elephant trekking lodge in Phuket Chanin, Runrot's son, a mahout at the trekking lodge Somchai, a Street Hawker Major Kamul, Chief of Police in Phuket Steve Kraft and Ken Suttle - Ayesha's solicitors British English spelling, punctuation, and grammatical conventions are used throughout. |
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