Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd
Publication Date: 15 July 2011
Language: English
Print length: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 9789814276603
ISBN-13: 981427660X
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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)
About the Author
Jake Needham is an American novelist and screenwriter who lived in Asia for over thirty years where he wrote regularly for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, the Straits Times in Singapore, and the Bangkok Post in Thailand. He has published four contemporary crime novels set in Asia: THE AMBASSADOR’S WIFE, KILLING PLATO, THE BIG MANGO, and LAUNDRY MAN. Seven different publishers in four countries have so far published thirteen separate editions of his novels.
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