Plato Karsarkis was an international celebrity straight out of Vanity Fair until a New York grand jury indicted him for smuggling Iraqi oil and charged him with racketeering and espionage. There was also the matter of a woman he may or may not have murdered to cover it all up. When Karsarkis flees the United States just ahead of the FBI and promptly vanishes, the world’s media whips itself into a frenzy.
Jack Shepherd was a politically connected American lawyer until he traded the fierce intrigues of Washington for the quiet life in Bangkok. Then one day he walks into a bar on the jet-set island of Phuket and finds the world’s most famous fugitive waiting for him.
Karsarkis wants to hire him. He wants a presidential pardon so he can return to American and he knows Shepherd’s connections to the White House just might get it for him. But the U.S. Marshals are in Phuket as well and they want something from Shepherd, too. They’re there to kidnap Karsarkis and take him back to the US for trial and the Marshals want Shepherd to help them set a trap.
What Shepherd wants is for everybody to go away and leave him alone. At least he does until he discovers a chilling secret, one that plunges him a violent spiral of friendship and betrayal and pulls him straight back into the life he thought he had left behind in Washington.
Just one more chapter… I really enjoyed reading this book. I liked the characters, the plot and the intrigue. I’m not a literary critic. Sure, there might be things wrong with the book. I don’t know what they are.All I can tell you is that I read the book, cover to cover. I stayed up WAY too late reading to see what was going to happen. Just one more chapter… What I liked is that it is long enough to do that for several days. Some ebooks are short. You just get into it and it is done. Not this…
Can’t put these down! I read all of Jake Needham’s Jack Shephard novels pretty quickly and was sad to have reached the end of the series still wanting more realizing that none were coming. Then, I started to read his Samuel Tay novels and went through 3 of his 4 novels on a single trip. The final one, The Girl in the Window is so effing good that I am now 67% through it and am limiting myself to reading just a few pages per day to keep this one going as long as I can. While all three earlier ones were good, this…
) And his wife was even worse. So why five stars What do lawyers use for birth control? Their personalities! That about describes the protagonist in this book. I didn’t much care for Jack Shepard, but he was a lawyer; who could! (Kidding, Jake!) And his wife was even worse. So why five stars? Because I loved the book! You don’t have to love the characters to love the book! The descriptions of people and their actions are spot on! The gauche, unsympathetic, totally oblivious Australian woman at a dinner party talking trash about…