The Big Mango - Couverture souple

Needham, Jake

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9748237362 ISBN 13 : 9789748237367

Editeur : Graham Brash (Pte.) Ltd ,Singapore, 2000

Synopsis

HARD TO FIND

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the Big Apple, to the Big Orange, to the Big Mango. It does have a kind of nutty logic to it. Bangkok is about as far as you can go without falling off the edge of the world, although at times Eddie wondered if that wasn t exactly what he had done. 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. Two 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 names Eddie Dare is the only guy who has a real shot at finding it. But first Eddie has to survive the jagged netherworld of modern-day Thailand a corkscrewed realm where big-time drug dealers tango with small-time hustlers, criminals on the 1 am mingle with bureaucrats on the take, and the merely raffish jostle with the downright scary for centre stage in the big leagues of weird. If Eddie can weather all that, maybe he really can find out what happened back in Saigon so long ago, and where those ten tons of money are.

Revue de presse

"THE BIG MANGO is a full-blown work. There's no room for improvement. It's as good as it gets." --The Bangkok Post

"Fans of such thriller writers as Leonard Elmore and Carl Hiaasen will find a lot to like here: wise-cracking crooks, tough broads, nefarious government agents, an ordinary Joe out of his depth, plot twists, and scenery with character." --The Asian Review of Books (Hong Kong)

"No cliches. No BS. Thrillers written with a wry sense of humor in the mean-streets, fast-car, tough-talking tradition of Elmore Leonard." --The Edge (Singapore)

"Fast-paced, intriguingly filled with dodgy money and dodgier characters, dialogue which is gritty and realistic." --The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

"The most delightful improbabilities are artfully woven together to form the plot of THE BIG MANGO. This witty, inventive, and most of all thrilling thriller is ... [a] heady, bloody, luxurious, sordid fictional romp." --The Nation (Thailand)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graham Brash (Pte.) Ltd ,Singapore
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9748237362
• ISBN 13: 9789748237367
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 351
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible