Bangkok 8

Surreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, where bodies and souls are for sale or rent, and where the way you die may be more important than the way you live...Inside a locked Mercedes an African-American marine sergeant is killed by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Two cops - the only two in the city not on the take - arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive. Sworn to avenge the death of his partner and soul brother, Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a fair-skinned Thai and a devout Buddhist, works his way through District 8. Soon he is in a realm he has never before encountered: the moneyed underbelly of Bangkok...