Tea Money by Jake Needham
Author of The Big Mango
There are places made for secrets ... Welcome to Bangkok
A rascally, take-no-prisoners thriller from the international money trade, chock-full of unforgettable people and places.
Welcome to Bangkok - half Miami, half Beirut, and all Blade Runner country after midnight. Jack Shepherd used to be a big-time lawyer in Washington D.C., an expert on global money laundering, but now he's settled comfortably into teaching business law at a Bangkok university. His biggest worries these days is whether his Italian-artist girlfriend will marry him if he works up the nerve to ask. But when the once-obscure Asian Bank of Commerce collapses and Barry Gale, an old colleague, surfaces in the middle of the scandal, Jack's sanctuary from the real world comes apart.
Barry, it seems, was fronting for Russian mobsters when he turned the hapless bank into the private financial arm of crime syndicates, terrorists, and intelligence agencies. Now he's got a problem. The ABC has been scammed, completely cleaned out, and Barry figures his new pals will think it was him. That's why he needs a little favor. He wants Jack to find the missing millions and steal them back - before half of the world's hard cases catch up with them both.
Critical acclaim for his bestseller, The Big Mango.
Jake Needham is the real thing.
"There's no room for improvement. It's as good as it gets." The Bangkok Post
"Witty, inventive, and above all [a] thrilling thriller." The Nation
Paperback
Bangkok 2000
Asia Books
378 pages
ISBN 9748237462Click here for more books by Jake Needham For delivery in Thailand please go to
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