Laundry Man

Author(s): Jake Needham

Location(s): Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): Modern

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Welcome to Bangkok. Bribery, corruption, money laundering and murder. They re not out to get you it s just how they do business. Once a high-flying international lawyer and renowned expert on global money laundering, the urbane and straight-shooting Jack Shepherd has happily swapped the fierce intrigue of Washington, DC for the lethargic backwater of Bangkok. Now he’s just an unremarkable professor at an unknown university in an unimportant city. Or is he? A lawyer among people who laugh at the law, a friend in a land where today’s allies are tomorrow’s fugitives, Jack Shepherd is a man perpetually tantalised by the moral labyrinth that bedevils all western expatriates in Asia. An international bank collapses under dubious circumstances: a law partner killed two years ago abruptly reappears: prominent members of the financial community die spectacular deaths: and a twisting trail of treachery and corruption leads Jack Shepherd from Manila to Bangkok to Hong Kong and the resort island of Phuket, and ultimately all the way back to the life he thought he’d left behind in Washington… perhaps even straight into the White House itself

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