A New Beginning
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Baht - Thai currency
Farang (Thai) - Foreigner
Dupatta - a scarf worn with the Shalwar Kameez
Taka - Bangladeshi currency
Aapyinmhar (Burmese) - Outside
Kurta - Long collarless shirt worn by men in South and Central Asia
As Salaam Aleikum (Arabic/Urdu) - A Muslim greeting meaning ‘Peace be upon you.’ The usual response to this greeting is ‘Wa aleikum salaam,’ meaning ‘and peace be upon you too.’
Dahl - Lentils
Alhamdulillah (Arabic) - Praise be to God
Wallah ( Hindi/Urdu/Bengali) - a slang term meaning a person associated with a profession, hence rickshaw wallah - a person driving a rickshaw
Maagi (Bengali) - slut
Behin chod (Bengali) - sister fucker
Kathorn krup (Thai) - Sorry/Excuse me
Kapoom (Thai) - Okay
Khanki maagi (Bengali) - whore
Yet mae (Thai) - motherfucker
Heeia (Thai) - fuck you
Ai farang (Thai) - roughly translated to mean ‘piece of shit foreigner’
Moga choda baccha (Bengali) - Motherfucker
Didi (Bengali) - Sister
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After a chance encounter in the lobby of a Dubai hotel, someone from the dark corners of John’s past comes back to haunt him, threatening to sabotage an idyllic holiday and to annihilate everything John Hayes holds dear.
No Escape, another fast-moving page-turning thriller in the John Hayes Thriller Series, takes you from the glitzy hotels of Dubai to the vast desert sands of Oman, where once again John has to dig deep and call upon all his wits to fight evil and save the woman he loves.
Reprisal: John Hayes #5
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the following:
Victor Sachayan for his input on the Thai language.
Rakesh Kanwar for feedback and advice about Bangladesh.
My editor Sandy Ebel - Personal Touch Editing, as always, without you I would have an unreadable manuscript. Angie-O e-Covers once again provided a cracking cover.
Last but not least, my long suffering wife, K. Thank you for tolerating my mood swings as I ride the roller coaster of emotions that make up a writer’s life.
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