The Risk of Infidelity Index: A Vincent
Calvino Novel (Vincent Calvino
Novels) by Christopher G. Moore
Terrific Bangkok Investigative Tale
In the twenty years he has lived in Bangkok, Christopher G. Moore has
written nine novels starring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer
working as a PI in the steamy Thai capital. Internationally acclaimed, the
prize-winning novels have been translated into ten languages, and were
first published in North America in 2007, with The Risk of Infidelity Index,
the latest in the series. When Calvino’s surveillance of a drug piracy ring
ends in definitive video evidence, it looks like his fortunes are about to turn.
But when Calvino’s client dies of a heart attack, and he finds the body of a
murdered massage girl downstairs, the authorities get suspicious of the
farang in the wrong place at the wrong time, twice. To make matters
worse, with the dead man unlikely to pay, Calvino is forced to take on a job
he doesn’t want, trailing the spouses of three expat housewives who have
been rattled by “The Risk of Infidelity Index,” a handbook that ranks

Bangkok as the city where men are most likely to stray. Unfortunately for
Calvino, jealous wives tend to be unhappy, regardless of the results, and
drug pirates aren’t the type to play nice.
Personal Review: The Risk of Infidelity Index: A Vincent Calvino
Novel (Vincent Calvino Novels) by Christopher G. Moore
In Bangkok, attorney Andrew Danielson hires American expatriate private
investigator Vincent Calvino to look into an illegal drug operation. With the
$10,000 fee and an expected success, Vincent believes he will obtain an
investigative position with the World health organization New York as he
has the proof.
Two floors below his office is the One Hand Clapping massage parlor
Vincent breaks down the door as he expects trouble inside. He is right
because he find a dead nineteen years old young "working" girl lying in her
bed. The same day Andrew dies from an alleged heart attack; his law firm
refuses to pay Vincent his expenses let alone his fee. As demonstrations
rock the city, Vincent finds himself unpaid and short cash. Three of the
Fab Four expatriate female friends hire him to conduct surveillance of their
spouses. Debra, Janet and Ruth have just read The Risk of Infidelity
Index, which names Bangkok as the number one city for spousal infidelity.
The fourth member Ruth is a recent widow; her spouse Andrew having just
died from cardiac arrest. All three of his recent activities soon tie together
in a major complex fiasco in which he may return to New York for his
funeral instead of for a job.
THE RISK OF INFIDELITY INDEX is a terrific Bangkok investigative tale
starring an American expatriate who finds he is getting deeper into trouble
when he just wants to collect his fee. The story line is at its best when
Vincent causes havoc or explains life in Thailand wit its' spiders, frogs and
shells. When the Fab Four appear, the plot turns humorous but loses a bit
of its Asian Urban Noir feel. Still this American Farang's misadventures
are fun to follow (see MINOR WIFE and SPIRIT HOUSE) as they rival the
BANGKOK HAUNTS of John Burdett.
Harriet Klausner
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