Description
"Mr. Needham seems to know rather more than one ought about these things." - The Wall Street Journal "Jake Needham has a knack for bringing intricate plots to life. His stories blur the line between fact and fiction and have a ripped from the headlines feel. Buckle up and enjoy the ride." - CNN "Needham writes so you can smell the spicy street food mingling with the traffic jams, the sweat, and the garbage." - Libris Reviews "It's Needham's voice that is the key to his novels' entertaining quality. Jack Shepherd is a first-person narrator who is cool, funny, and good company." - International Noir Fiction JAKE NEEDHAMxa0has twice been a finalist for the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback Mystery of the Year and as well as a finalist for the International Thriller Writers' award for Best Ebook Thriller of the Year .xa0He is an American screen and television writer who started writing crime novels when he realized he really didn't like movies and television all that much. Since then, he has published twelve popular thrillers in two different series — The Jack Shepherd Novels and The Inspector Samuel Tay Novels — as well as the international bestseller, THE BIG MANGO.xa0"Jake Needham's the real deal," says Brendan DuBois, New York Times #1 bestselling author with James Patterson of BLOWBACK, A POLITICAL THRILLER. "His characters are moral men and women struggling in an increasingly immoral world, his suspense and plotting are top-notch, and his writing is exquisitely fine. Highly, highly recommended."
Features & Highlights
- Over a hundred million dollars vanishes in the collapse of a dodgy Asian bank, and a bunch of dangerous people think Jack Shepherd knows exactly where it went. The problem is, he doesn't have a clue.
- Shepherd was once a high-flying Washington lawyer, a man famed for his ability to sniff out even the best hidden financial schemes. But he suddenly realized he was sick of it all, took himself halfway around the world, and became a business school professor at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University. The quiet life in his new tropical paradise is going pretty well for him, too, until one sunny day the past shows up.A secretive Asian bank run by Shepherd's former law partner collapses under murky circumstances and a lot of money disappears. The bank's depositors aren't the sort of people you want to cross, and Shepherd's old partner says he's a dead man if he doesn't get their money back.Shepherd agrees to poke around the boardrooms and back alleys of Asia to find out where all that money went, but it doesn't take him long to see that he's in trouble. His former partner has painted a big target on his back, and a lot of people seem to think Shepherd is the guy who made the money disappear in the first place. Now they'll cheerfully kill him to get it back.If Shepherd isn't going to be the patsy for the bank's collapse, he needs a plan. He's got one, but there's just one thing wrong with it.It's downright crazy.
- “MR. NEEDHAM SEEMS TO KNOW RATHER MORE THAN ONE OUGHT ABOUT THESE THINGS.”
- - The Wall Street Journal
