The Ambassador's Wife - Couverture souple

Needham, Jake

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 6167611246 ISBN 13 : 9786167611242

Editeur : Half Penny Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Inspector Samuel Tay is the best homicide detective Singapore CID ever had, but Tay's bosses don't like him and he doesn't like them. The maverick streak he inherited from his American father makes people uneasy in well-ordered little Singapore where go-along-to-get-along is practically the national religion.

The wife of the American ambassador has been murdered and her body posed in a hotel room in a grotesque sexual display.

The FBI says terrorists are responsible, but the whispers on the street tell a different story. The whispers say that a serial killer is stalking prominent American women in Asia, and that the ambassador's wife won't be the only victim.

Tay's bosses don't like the idea of putting such a high-profile case in his hands, but botching the investigation would mean an international black eye for Singapore and Tay is the best they've got.

The Americans don't want Tay involved either. They want him to leave the case to them, but he's not going to do that. It's a Singapore murder, and finding killers in Singapore is what he does. Besides, the Americans don't appear to him to be all that interested in solving anything.

Don't they want him to find the woman's killer? Tay wonders.

Or am I the only one here who doesn't already know who it is?


"IF THERE IS A LIVING WRITER WHOSE WORK MAKES ME THINK OF THE GREAT RAYMOND CHANDLER, IT'S JAKE NEEDHAM" – James David Audlin

“I FELL IN LOVE WITH INSPECTOR SAMUEL TAY FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE. BRAVO!" - James Lawler, former member of CIA's Senior Intelligence Service and author of LIVING LIES and IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

“Jake Needham is Asia’s Dashiell Hammett. His plotting is top-notch, and his writing is exquisitely fine. Highly, highly recommended.” - Brendan DuBois, New York Times bestselling author with James Patterson of THE FIRST LADY

"THE AMBASSADOR’S WIFE is another terrific book from a terrific writer. Jake Needham is in a class of his own.”- The Bangkok Post

THE FIRST BODY is in Singapore, on a bed in an empty suite at the Marriott Hotel. The second is in Bangkok, in a seedy apartment near the American embassy. Both American women viciously beaten and shot in the head. Both bodies stripped naked and lewdly displayed.

The FBI says it’s terrorism, but the whispers on the street tell a different story. They say a serial killer is stalking American women in Asia.

Singapore CID assigns the case to Inspector Samuel Tay. Tay is something of a reluctant policeman. He’s a little overweight, a little lonely, a little cranky, and he smokes way too much. Thinking back, he can’t even remember why he became a police detective in the first place. He often talks about quitting, but he hasn’t. Because the thing is, he’s very, very good at what he does.

So why is it, Tay soon begins to wonder, that nobody seems to want him to find the women's killer? Not his bosses at CID, not the FBI, not even the American ambassador. 

When international politics takes over a murder case, the truth is usually the next victim.

Biographie de l'auteur

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-five years. He is a lawyer by education and has held a number of significant positions in both the public and private sectors where he took part in a lengthy list of international operations he has absolutely no intention of telling you about. He, his wife, and their two sons now divide their time between homes in Thailand and the United States.

You can learn more about Jake Needham at his official website: JakeNeedham.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Half Penny Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 6167611246
• ISBN 13: 9786167611242
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 386
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