
Disco for the Departed
Dr Siri Paiboun may be in his seventy-third year, but he''s still as sturdy as a jungle boar - and as crafty as one. Reluctant coroner to the Lao People''s Democratic Republic, he''s been despatched to the country''s mountainous north where the sudden appearance of a mummified arm protruding from a concrete path laid in front of the President''s new mansion has caused an understandable degree of e...
Dr Siri Paiboun may be in his seventy-third year, but he''s still as sturdy as a jungle boar - and as crafty as one. Reluctant coroner to the Lao People''s Democratic Republic, he''s been despatched to the country''s mountainous north where the sudden appearance of a mummified arm protruding from a concrete path laid in front of the President''s new mansion has caused an understandable degree of e...