The Big Mango
$400 million is in the wind, more than ten tons of cash money, the result of a bungled CIA operation to grab the foreign currency reserves of the Bank of Vietnam when the Americans fled Saigon in 1975.
A couple of decades later, the word on the street is that all that money somehow ended up in Bangkok and a downwardly mobile lawyer from California named Eddie Dare is the only guy left alive who might have a chance at figuring out where it is.
Eddie knows nothing about the missing money. At least, he doesn’t think he does. But so many people claim he’s got an inside track on finding it that he and an old marine buddy named Winnebago Jones decide to head for Bangkok anyway and do a little treasure hunting. What do they have to lose?
Their lives, as it turns out. When they plunge into the jagged netherworld of modern-day Bangkok, it doesn’t take long for things to get really weird.
From the Big Apple, to the Big Orange, to the Big Mango. You have to admit it has a kind of nutty logic to it. Bangkok is about as far from California as Eddie can get without sailing completely over the edge of the world.
Although, at times, he wonders if that isn’t exactly what he has done.
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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...
Mean Streets of Asia Crime
This series has many of the books from the Inspector Samuel Tay and Jake Shepard series. The order is :
The Ambassador’s Wife, The Umbrella Man, The Big Mango, Laundry Man, Killing Plato, The Dead American, A World of Trouble, The Girl in the Window, The King of Macau, Don’t Get Caught, and And Brother It’s Starting to Rain.
Mean Streets of Asia Crime consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
