dead orchid by alex sinclair

Something is afoot in Cambodia, and you’d better buckle up tight as the author drives you with mad alacrity through its humid and hellish landscape. Brace yourself to meet characters that are variously sinister, unhinged, or simply out of their gourds and down on their luck. A true fever dream of a novel that will give you the whitest knuckles you’ve ever had.

A brutal and poetic book that is impossible to ignore.
— Andrew Lyall
A sinister setting into an unforgettable exploration of trauma, madness, and redemption.
— The Bookish Shukuroh
This book is not meant to comfort—a meditation on self-destruction that peels back the skin of your fragile sanity and whispers to your bones.
— Loredana Lupu