Poke Rafferty

Created by Timothy Hallinan
(1942 –)

POKE RAFFERTY doesn’t have your typical background for a private eye. He was a travel writer, and in fact, he’s still a writer, at least part-time.

Plus he’s also got to be about the only gumshoe of Filipino-Irish heritage that I can think of.

Now he lives in Bangkok, trying to be a family man with his ex-hooker girlfriend Rose and a young street kid, Miaow, whom they’ve more-or-less adopted.

There’s some sharply observed local colour, and Poke’s outsider-looking-in viewpoint doesn’t pull any punches — he puts you facedown right in the seediness. Fans of Christopher Moore’s fellow Bangkok ex-pat eye Vinee Calvino should get a kick out of this one.

Hallinan, a one-time partner in a Los Angeles public relations firm, previously wrote a well-received series about Los Angeles private eye Simeon Grist, and more recently he’s started writing about Los Angeles second story man turned reluctant private eye Junior Bender.

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Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.

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