Curse of the Pogo Stick

A pogo stick brings a curse down upon a Hmong village . . . Laos, 1977. Dr. Siri Paiboun, the spry seventy-three-year-old reluctant national coroner of Laos, is on his way back from a Communist party meeting when he is ambushed on a jungle trail and kidnapped by seven female Hmong villagers. His only route to freedom is to exorcise the village of its demon—a task he has no idea how to accomplish—and in doing so he brings to pass the prediction of Auntie Bpoo, a transvestite fortune teller. Meanwhile, back in Vientiane, Nurse Dtui and Dr. Siri’s fiancée are on their own to track down the assassin who is intent on wiping out the mortuary staff. Exploding corpses, zombie muggers, and a geriatric gun fight—just another day at the Laos national morgue.