Bangkok - the Year of the Monkey. Vincent Calvino is Spending the New Year on a Call-Out to Lumpini Park Lake, Where the Thai Cops Have Fished Out the Body of a Farang Cameraman. Calvino Traces the American's Murder to an Elite Unit of Old Asia Hands - a Set of Foreigners With Bad Reputations and Powerful Friends. 'Think Dashiell Hammett in Bangkok' - "San Francisco Chronicle".