The Big Mango

Author(s): Jake Needham

Location(s): Bangkok

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): 1990s

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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.

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