The Dead American - Couverture souple

Needham, Jake

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 6167611262 ISBN 13 : 9786167611266

Editeur : Half Penny Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

They steer a tight ship in squeaky-clean Singapore. No dissent, no opposition, no criticism. It’s like an entire country run by Walt Disney. Disneyland with the death penalty, somebody once called it.

A young American software engineer hangs himself in his Singapore apartment. At least that’s what the police say happened. Emma Lazar, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, thinks otherwise. She thinks Tyler Bartlett was murdered to keep him quiet about something and the Singapore police are covering it up.

Emma Lazar asks Inspector Samuel Tay to help her look into the young man’s death. Tay is a senior inspector in Singapore CID and clearly the best investigator the Singapore police have ever had, but he’s been suspended. Tay shot a man and everyone knows it was self-defense, but Tay is an outsider in tightly wound little Singapore and his enemies have seized on the incident to get rid of him once and for all.

Tay really doesn’t want to ask questions about the death of Tyler Bartlett. It certainly won’t help him get his job back to challenge the government’s official narrative, but something about Emma Lazar‘s determination tickles his curiosity and… well, the truth is he’s bored and she’s beautiful.

Learning that Tyler Bartlett’s death was no suicide is easy enough for Tay. What is far more difficult is finding out what it was the young man knew that made him worth killing.

When Tay discovers both his superiors on the police force and the faceless men of the Internal Security Department are working desperately behind the scenes to keep him from finding out, he becomes determined to uncover what, and who, is behind Tyler Bartlett’s murder.

Of course, there’s a problem there. If Tay does find out, won’t that make him worth killing, too?

“NEEDHAM WRITES SO VIVIDLY YOU CAN ALMOST SMELL THE SPICY STREET FOOD MINGLED WITH THE TRAFFIC JAMS, THE SWEAT, AND THE GARBAGE.” – Libris Reviews

A propos du livre

À propos 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: 6167611262
• ISBN 13: 9786167611266
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 370
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