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Jake Needham\u00a0is an American screen and television writer who began writing crime novels and legal thrillers when he realized he really didn’t like movies and television very much.\u00a0He is a lawyer by training\u00a0and held a number of positions in the public and private sectors. Then, somehow, he became a screenwriter following a series of accidents and coincidences too ridiculous to be believed.<\/p>\n

\"\"He tops today’s Buffet with Laundry Man,<\/em> a spy thriller set in Bangkok.\u00a0Much of the fun in reading this novel, according to the Wall Street Journal’s review, is in trying to guess how much of the story is based on fact. Although it might seem unlikely that government agencies would engage in such brazen corruption in real life, the truth is they already have. Jake\u00a0seems to know rather more than one ought about these things.<\/p>\n

Jake\u00a0has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand for over twenty-five years. He, his wife, and their two sons now divide their time between homes in Thailand and the United States.<\/p>\n

As usual, each book listed here has gone FREE within the past 24 hours (except for the \u201cBargain Books\u201d at the bottom of this page). Warning: Kindle book promotions can end without notice, so before downloading click the link \u201cSee Kindle price at Amazon\u201d to verify that the book is still free. (Prices and availability may differ outside USA.<\/p>\n

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LAUNDRY MAN (The Jack Shepherd International Crime Novels Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
International Mystery & Crime<\/div>\n
Jake Needham<\/div>\n
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\u201cMr. Needham seems to know rather more than one ought about these things.\u201d?\u2014 The Wall Street Journal Asia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Once a high-flying international lawyer, a member of the innermost circles of government power, Jack Shepherd has abandoned the savage politics of Washington for the lethargic backwater of Bangkok, where he is now just an unremarkable professor at an unimportant university in an insignificant city.<\/p>\n

Or is he?<\/p>\n

A secretive Asian bank collapses under dubious circumstances. A former law partner Shepherd thought dead reveals himself as the force behind the disgraced bank and coerces Shepherd into helping him track the hundreds of millions of dollars that disappeared in the collapse. A twisting trail of deceit leads Shepherd from Bangkok to Hong Kong and eventually to an isolated villa on the fabled island of Phuket where he confronts the evil at the heart of a monstrous game of international treachery.<\/p>\n

A lawyer among people who laugh at the law, a friend in a land where today\u2019s allies are tomorrow\u2019s fugitives, Jack Shepherd battles the global tide of corruption, extortion and murder that is fast engulfing the new life he has made for himself in Thailand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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