Disco for the Departed

Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos" reluctant national coroner, confused psychic, and disheartened communist gets on down with a third installment of the wittiest and most inventive crime series in print. Dr Siri, 73 but still as sturdy as a jungle boar, is summoned to the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the new communist government hid in caves, waiting to assume power. On the eve of a major celebration of their glorious new regime, an arm is found protruding from the concrete walk laid from the President's former cave hideout to his new house.