International Writers Inspiring Change presents: The Bangkok Girl: A Lee Jenson Novel by Sean O'Leary

Zoe, a young Australian girl travels from Bangkok to Tokyo for work. She goes missing. Trafficked by the Yakuza into sex work.

Bangkok-based, Australian PI, Lee Jenson is hired to find her. He travels to Tokyo for the first time as Zoe did. Following her timeline. He hits a brick wall, gets bashed by gangsters and finds the cultural differences hard to fathom. He is a stranger in a strange town.

One thing about Jenson though, he never gives up. But can he find Zoe as the Yakuza move her from place to place, before she’s lost forever. From Bangkok to Tokyo to Hong Kong and back to Bangkok, Lee Jenson battles his own demons and the feared Yakuza to try and bring Zoe home.

Our review of The Bangkok Girl

The Bangkok Girl, by Sean O'Leary, is the first book in the Lee Jenson Novels, a crime novel that takes the reader between Bangkok and Japan, where Lee Jenson, a somewhat dysfunctional private investigator, is contacted by a wealthy man who hires him to find his missing daughter, last known to be in the Bangkok area. Lee's investigation rapidly escalates as the trail leads him and his working companions, deep into the rattlesnake infested world of sex and human traffickers. Lee, unlike other stereotypical investigators, is more brain than brawn, and with a good dose of guts and steel, repeatedly puts himself in precariously dangerous situations as the investigation ramps up, situations that result in him getting banged up. The unstoppable investigator, bruised and roughed up, stays true to the case. One follows the investigation, painful as it is, hoping that Jenson will find the girl before it is too late. A good series in the making. Recommended. Five stars.

Review by International Writers Inspiring Change

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About the author

Sean O’Leary is a writer of crime and literary fiction from Melbourne, Australia. He has published five short story collections, two novellas and four novels as well as over fifty individual short stories in journals both literary and crime. He walks through cities, along coasts and on bush tracks. Takes photographs like a madman, does some drawing and thinks test cricket is the greatest game of all.

I write crime novels that are fast paced, action filled stories featuring relentless protagonists who never give up.

I write crime and literary short story collections filled with slices of life that will make you laugh and cry and break your heart.

My crime novels are also translated into Spanish and Portuguese.

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