The King of Macau (The Jack Shepherd Novels) - Softcover

Needham, Jake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6167611378 ISBN 13: 9786167611372

Publisher: Half Penny Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

“Jack Shepherd is a delight, a sharp-witted lawyer with a drive for justice forced to reside in a world of hard men who don’t believe in the rule of law. Jake Needham is a man who knows Asia like the back of his hand.” -&nbspThe Malaysia Star

“Jake Needham is Asia’s most stylish and atmospheric writer of crime fiction.”- The Singapore Straits Times

Jack Shepherd is a lawyer, but he doesn’t much like to admit it. He's fled the acrid life of Washington and now he works by himself in Hong Kong. He no longer lobbies government agencies, negotiates for corporations, or shows up in court. From his little unmarked office on Hollywood Road, he works quietly to solve the problems his big-money clients don’t want anyone else to know they have.

One of the world’s largest casino operators discovers a massive money-laundering scheme at its casino in Macau and they go to Jack Shepherd to get it stopped. Macau is a tiny place on the south coast of China close to Hong Kong that is the biggest gambling center on earth. It is also a stronghold of Chinese organized crime, which makes it a dicey place for a white guy to go around asking questions.

Shepherd is in Macau ducking Chinese gangsters and searching for the source of the black money swamping the casinos when he is sucked into another bizarre caper. A man who knows the most secret schemes of the North Korean government has found out Shepherd still has high-level connections in Washington. He wants Shepherd to slip him out of Macau and get him political asylum in America, maybe with a nice beach house in Hawaii thrown in for good measure.

And just like that Shepherd is tumbling headlong through this modern-day Casablanca on the South China Sea, a bubbling cauldron of gunrunners, money launderers, hustlers, gangsters, gamblers, con men, and spies. He must join forces with the daughter of a shadowy old man everybody calls the King of Macau to stay ahead of the Chinese gangsters and shut down the black money flow. But, at the same time, he battles a gaggle of North Korean hitmen to bring his defector in alive.

Move too fast, and he’ll lose control of everything. Move too slow... and Macau just might kill him.

About this title

About the Author:

JAKE NEEDHAM is an American screen and television writer who started writing crime novels when he realized he didn't actually like movies and television all that much. Since then, he has published eleven titles in The Mean Streets of Asia Crime Novels series. 

For nearly thirty years, Jake has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bangkok. He, his wife, and their two sons now divide their time between their homes in Bangkok and Washington DC. 

You can learn more about Jake and his books at his web site: JakeNeedhamNovels.com.

Review:

"In the genre of crime fiction set in Asia, Jake Needham is in a class of his own." - The Bangkok Post
  
"Jake Needham is Asia's most stylish and atmospheric writer of crime fiction." -  The Singapore Straits Times
 
"Needham certainly knows where a few bodies are buried." - Asia Inc
 
"Mr. Needham seems to know rather more than one ought about these things." -  The Wall Street Journal
 
"Tight, atmospheric thrillers. Needham knows Asia like the back of his hand." -  The Malaysia Star

"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." -CNNgo
 
"Needham writes so you can smell the spicy street food mingling with the traffic jams, the sweat, and the garbage." - Libris Reviews
 
"Jake Needham is one of the most popular writers of fiction in Asia." - Travel News Asia

"What you will not get is pseudo-intellectual new-wave Asian literature, sappy relationship writing, or Bangkok bargirl sensationalism. This is top class fiction that just happens to be set in an Asian context."-  Singapore Airlines SilverKris Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Half Penny Ltd
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 6167611378
• ISBN 13: 9786167611372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344