Chad Evans shows Christopher G. Moore to be a writer of great precision, imagination, conviction and above all, knowledge. It is a timely tribute to an important writer and to his most memorable character, a political and social history spanning 25 years of Southeast Asia. Vincent Calvino's World will become an indispensable resource for Moore's fans and for anyone who wants a deeper insight into Calvino's world in Southeast Asia in a time of vast change. Through the prism of a crime fiction, the Calvino novels explore the dimensions of knowledge, law, culture, philosophy and history. In Evan's journey through the Vincent Calvino series, he has provided a vision of the future role of literary crime fiction—to decode a time, place and people.