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"Much of the fun in reading LAUNDRY MAN is in trying to guess how much of the story is based on fact. Mr. Needham seems to know rather more than one ought about these things." - The Wall Street Journal Asia 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. Or is he? A secretive Asian bank collapses under dubious circumstances and a former law partner Shepherd thought was dead reveals himself as the force behind the disgraced bank. Coerced into helping his old partner track the hundreds of millions of dollars that disappeared in the collapse, Shepherd follows a twisting trail of deceit 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.
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JAKE NEEDHAM is an American screen and television writer who started writing crime novels when he realized he didn't really like movies and television all that much. Since then, he has published eleven titles in The Mean Streets Crime Novels series. For nearly thirty years, Jake has lived and worked in Europe and Asia. He, his wife, and their two sons now divide their time between homes in Washington DC and Bangkok. You can learn more about Jake and his books at his web site: JakeNeedhamNovels.com.
