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Winter Hunt    by Allen Makepeace
Price: $0.99 USD. 94330 words. Published on July 20, 2011. .

In a bleak winter. a young girl and a cashiered army officer are sought by a fearsome criminal gang. The author, a historian, takes readers into sordid inns, dank prisons, workhouses and squalid tenements and introduces them to the many colourful characters who people this adventure tale: law-breakers and law-makers, quack doctors, actors and that coolest of killers, the monstrous Teddy Kellett.
The Open Gate of Mercy    by Fr.Joseph Maier
Price: $8.95 USD. 60660 words. Published by HeavenLakePress  on October 10, 2012. .

As the Parish Priest for the Catholic community living beside Bangkok’s main slaughterhouse and founder of the Human Development Foundation - Mercy Centre, Father Joe has been walking arm in arm with his brothers, sisters, aunties, uncles, grannies, and children in the city’s slums for over 40 years.
Friendships of Gold    by Max Ediger
Price: $4.99 USD. 90900 words. Published by booksmango  on January 13, 2013. .

Tony lives with the nightmare of what he did as a soldier in Vietnam. It consumes him day and night. He finally returns to Asia and rents a small house in a Bangkok slum where he hopes to live the rest of his life anonymously and in silence. But the people of Soi 4 Community begin to befriend Tony even though he tries hard to resist. Through the persistence of these friends, Tony is slowly dra