The Nineteen
THERE WERE NINETEEN HIJACKERS
YOU KNOW ABOUT.
AND ONE YOU DON’T.
In January 2000, nearly a dozen of Osama bin Laden's most trusted lieutenants gathered secretly in Malaysia to plan an attack on America, an attack the world would one day call 9/11.
When the meeting ended, some of the Al-Qaeda commanders returned to Afghanistan, but the rest went to Bangkok. Why did they go to Bangkok after the plan for 9/11 was in motion? No one knew. The CIA lost track of them.
THE NINETEEN is a novel about four Americans in Bangkok who banded together in January 2000 to do what the CIA couldn’t do. Find the Al-Qaeda commanders in the city and discover what they were planning.
They got close. Tantalizingly close. They just didn’t get quite close enough.
After the World Trade Center vanished in a cloud of fire and dust, they looked at the photographs of the smoldering ruins and realized they might have stopped it. They thought nothing could be worse than knowing they had failed.
Then they discovered there was something worse.
There was something much worse.
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Jake Needham
Once upon a time, I was a screen and television writer, but I started writing crime novels when I realized I really didn't like movies and television all that much.
Since then, I've published twenty crime and mystery novels. I've been nominated for the Barry Award three times, and the International Thriller Writers' Award once. The seventh book in my Inspector Tay series — WHO THE HELL IS HARRY BLACK? — won the Barry Award for Best Paperback Mystery of 2024.
My wife and I live in Bangkok now, and have for over thirty years.
The romantic notion of the American expatriate novelist living an exciting life in some exotic land pretty much disappeared nearly a century ago when Hemingway and Fitzgerald fled Paris, but there are still a few of us out here.
This is where we live...
The Jack Shepherd Novels
The Jack Shepherd Novels consists of six books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
