Jake Needham

An Inspector Samuel Tay Novel

1 - The Ambassador's Wife (Nov-2011)
2 - The Umbrella Man (Dec-2012)
3 - The Dead American (Mar-2015)

A Jack Shepherd International Crime Novel

1 - Laundry Man (Dec-2011)
2 - Killing Plato (Dec-2011)
3 - A World of Trouble (Mar-2012)
4 - The King of Macau (Jan-2014)
5 - Don't Get Caught (Sep-2017)

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  The Big Mango
  

  • Nov-2011
  • / Action Adventure
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  "There’s no room for improvement. THE BIG MANGO is as good as it gets." - The Bangkok Post“THE BIG MANGO is a classic. Freelancing CIA agents, tough-as-nails Vietnamese secret policewomen, a huge pile of missing money, and a downwardly mobil...

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  The Ambassador's Wife
  

  • Nov-2011
  • / Police Procedural
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  An Inspector Samuel Tay Novel - 1
  

  "Needham’s the real deal. Highly, highly recommended."- Brendan DuBois, New York Times #1 bestselling author

  "If there's a living writer whose work makes me think of the great Raymond Chandler, it's Jake Needham."- James David Audlin, au...

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  Killing Plato
  

  • Dec-2011
  • / Mystery
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  A Jack Shepherd International Crime Novel - 2
  

  "The gritty and taut KILLING PLATO is 100% unadulterated attitude.” -- The Singapore Straits Times

  "Jake Needham is an author we should all treasure, a classic master of crime, intrigue and the kind of edgy thrillers that make readers ...

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  Laundry Man
  

  • Dec-2011
  • / Mystery
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  A Jack Shepherd International Crime Novel - 1
  

  "LAUNDRY MAN becomes a crazed ride of financial misconduct, dirty money, and misuse of power as Jack Shepherd’s investigations draw him into a twisted conspiracy involving Burmese drug traffickers, American intelligence agencies, and the Chines...

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  A World of Trouble
  

  • Mar-2012
  • / Thriller
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  A Jack Shepherd International Crime Novel - 3
  

  "A WORLD OF TROUBLE is one terrific novel, a tale of friendship, loyalty, and betrayal set against the backdrop of a country enduring extreme social and political upheaval." - The Bangkok Post

  “Tight and atmospheric, Needham's Jack She...

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  The Umbrella Man
  

  • Dec-2012
  • / Police Procedural
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  An Inspector Samuel Tay Novel - 2
  

  "Needham deftly morphs 1930s American Sam Spade into Samuel Tay, a world-weary 21st century Singapore homicide detective. You can smell the spicy street food mingling with the traffic jams, the sweat, and the garbage.” -- Libris Reviews

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  The King of Macau
  

  • Jan-2014
  • / Thriller
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  A Jack Shepherd International Crime Novel - 4
  

  “Jack Shepherd is a delight, a sharp-witted lawyer with a drive for justice forced to reside in a world of hard men who don’t believe in the rule of law.”  - The Malaysia Star

  "Fans of such thriller writers as Elmore Leon...

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  The Dead American
  

  • Mar-2015
  • / Police Procedural
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  An Inspector Samuel Tay Novel - 3
  

  "Mr. Needham seems to know rather more than one ought about these things.” -- The Wall Street Journal 

  “Jake Needham’s Inspector Tay books have been successful in irritating the powers that be in Singapore to the point that they a...

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  Don't Get Caught
  

  • Sep-2017
  • / Mystery
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  A Jack Shepherd International Crime Novel - 5
  

  A thriller written with a wry sense of irony in the mean-streets, fast-car, tough-talk tradition of Elmore Leonard. -- Singapore TodayJake Needham is a classic master of crime, intrigue, and edgy thrillers.-- James Grady, New York Times best-selling ...

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  Mongkok Station
  

  • Oct-2020
  • / Thriller
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