The Thai Amulet

Characters

IN THE PAST

Chairacha, king of Ayutthaya

Prince Thianracha, his brother

Lady Si Sudachan, royal concubine

Prince Yot Fa, son of Chairacha and the concubine

Prince Si Sin, younger brother of Yot Fa

Khun Worawongsa, court official

Chakkraphat, king of Ayutthaya

IN THE PRESENT

William Beauchamp, antiques dealer

Natalie Beauchamp, William’s wife

The Chaiwong family:

Thaksin, patriarch

Wongvipa, his wife

Sompom, Thaksin’s first son by a previous marriage

Wannee, Sompom’s wife

Nu, daughter of Sompom and Wannee

Chat, first son of Thaksin and Wongvipa

Dusit, second son

Prapapan, daughter

Yutai, family secretary

Wichai, family friend

Busakorn, Wichai’s daughter

David Ferguson, U.S. consular official

Robert Fitzgerald, artist

Bent Rowland, literary agent

Tatiana Tucker, producer

Prasit, assistant manager, PPKK

Praneet, Will’s neighbor

While the characters of the narrator and his mother in the ancient story are fictional, the other characters and the political events and intrigue in the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya described here are real. They took place between about 1534 and 1548. The same cannot be said for the present, where all events and people are figments of the author’s imagination.