If you enjoy books set in Thailand, why not read Stephen Leather’s bestselling novel Private Dancer, where a writer meets a go-go girl who steals his heart and much more, or his detective story Bangkok Bob and The Missing Mormon. His novels The Solitary Man, The Tunnel Rats, and Live Fire are also set partly in Thailand.

  Following are the opening chapters of five of Stephen Leather’s best-selling novels: The Stretch, The Tunnel Rats, The Solitary Man, The Eyewitness and Hard Landing. All are available as eBooks or regular paperbacks.

  THE STRETCH