The King of Macau - Couverture souple

Needham, Jake

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 6167611378 ISBN 13 : 9786167611372

Editeur : Half Penny Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Macau is a tiny country. It's a modern-day Casablanca on the South China Sea: a bubbling cauldron of gamblers, gangsters, con men, hustlers, gunrunners, money launderers, and spies.

It's also a stronghold of Chinese organized crime, which makes it a dicey place for a white guy to go around asking too many questions.

Jack Shepherd is a lawyer, but he doesn't much like to admit it. He no longer lobbies government agencies, negotiates for corporations, or shows up in court. These days, he discreetly solves problems his big-money clients don't want anyone to know they have.

Shepherd is in Macau ducking Chinese gangsters and trying to find the source of the black money flooding his client's casino when he's approached by a Korean who knows that Shepherd still has high-level connections in Washington. The Korean claims he's connected to the very top of the North Korean government and wants Shepherd to get him political asylum in America.

He's already dealing with a ton of money that nobody wants him to find, and then this defector who has the keys to the North Korean kingdom falls into his lap. Either one is enough to get a man killed.

Now Jack Shepherd has both of them.


"Jake Needham's the real deal. His characters are moral men and women struggling in an increasingly immoral world, his suspense and plotting are top-notch, and his writing is exquisitely fine. Highly, highly recommended." -- Brendan DuBois, New York Times #1 bestselling author with James Patterson of BLOWBACK, A POLITICAL THRILLER

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

JAKE NEEDHAM is an American screen and television writer who began writing crime and spy novels set mostly in contemporary Asia when he realized how little he actually liked movies and television.

Mr. Needham has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand for nearly thirty 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 absolutely no intention of telling you anything about. He, his wife, and their two sons now divide their time between homes in Bangkok and New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Half Penny Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 6167611378
• ISBN 13: 9786167611372
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg