Jake Needham


Biography

JAKE NEEDHAM is an American screen and television writer who began writing crime novels when he realized he didn’t really like movies and television very much.

Mr. Needham has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand for over twenty years. He is a lawyer by education and has held a number of significant positions in both the pubic and private sectors where he took part in a lengthy list of international operations he has no intention of telling you about.

He, his wife, and their two sons divide their time between homes in Thailand and the United States. You can read excerpts from Jake Needham’s other books at his web site, www.JakeNeedham.com.

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Books

The Umbrella Man    by Jake Needham
Price: $4.99 USD. 110380 words. Published on December 21, 2012. Fiction.

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The first bomb cracked the Hilton like an egg; the second gutted the lobby of the Marriott; and the third peeled the front off the Grand Hyatt. Three massive explosions, all at American hotels in the heart of the city, and all within a few horrifying seconds. Hundreds are dead and thousands are injured. Singapore is bleeding.
A World of Trouble    by Jake Needham
Price: $4.99 USD. 115880 words. Published on March 21, 2012. Fiction.

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"Needham is Asia's most stylish and atmospheric writer of crime fiction." – THE SINGAPORE STRAITS TIMES.... "Jake Needham is Michael Connelly with steamed rice." – THE BANGKOK POST.... Thailand is hurtling closer and closer to a bloody civil war. And as unlikely as it may sound, Jack Shepherd is probably the only person on earth who can stop it.
Killing Plato    by Jake Needham
Price: $4.99 USD. 108130 words. Published on December 10, 2011. Fiction.

Jack Shepherd is a well connected American lawyer until he trades the political scheming of Washington for the quiet life in Thailand. Plato Karsarkis is a celebrity straight out of the pages of Vanity Fair until he's indicted for smuggling Iraqi oil, charged with racketeering, and flees to Phuket. Karsarkis wants a presidential pardon. Shepherd wants Karsarkis to leave him alone.
The Big Mango    by Jake Needham
Price: $4.99 USD. 109240 words. Published on November 23, 2011. Fiction.

Four hundred million dollars is in the wind, the result of a bungled CIA operation to grab the Bank of Vietnam’s currency reserves when the Americans fled Saigon in 1975. A few decades later, the word on the street is that all that money somehow ended up in Bangkok and a downwardly mobile lawyer from San Francisco named Eddie Dare is the only guy with a shot at finding it.

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