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About the Book
Welcome to Bangkok. Bribery, corruption, money laundering and murder. They're not out to get you - it's just how they do business.
Once a high-flying international lawyer and renowned expert on global money laundering, the urbane and straight-shooting Jack Shepherd has happily swapped the fierce intrigue of Washington, DC for the lethargic backwater of Bangkok. Now he's just an unremarkable professor at an unknown university in an unimportant city. Or is he?
A lawyer among people who laugh at the law, a friend in a land where today's allies are tomorrow's fugitives, Jack Shepherd is a man perpetually tantalized by the moral labyrinth that bedevils all western expatriates in Asia.
An international bank collapses under dubious circumstances, a law partner killed two years ago abruptly reappears, prominent members of the financial community die spectacular deaths, and a twisting trail of treachery and corruption leads Jack Shepherd from Manila to Bangkok to Hong Kong and the resort island of Phuket, and ultimately all the way back to the life he thought he'd left behind in Washington... perhaps even straight into the White House itself.
About the Author
Jake Needham is the author of four international crime novels, all of which were English-language bestsellers throughout Asia: The Ambassador's Wife, Killing Plato, Laundry Man, and The Big Mango. The Straits Times (Singapore) called him "Asia's most stylish and atmospheric writer of crime fiction".
Jake
has written extensively for film and television, with his motion
pictures being distributed by Columbia-TriStar, HBO, Lifetime, the USA
Network, Turner Pictures and Showtime.
Needham lives in Bangkok, a continual source of inspiration for his writing.
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