Jake Needham Books in Order

Rumors say a fortune lost in the fall of Saigon ended up in Bangkok, and down-on-his-luck lawyer Eddie Dare cannot ignore them. He and an old Marine friend plunge into Thailand's underworld, where treasure hunting quickly becomes a fight to stay alive.

More than a hundred million dollars disappears in the wreck of a Bangkok bank, and former Washington lawyer Jack Shepherd gets pulled into the mess. What starts as financial sleuthing turns into a dangerous tangle of laundering, intelligence games, and people who do not want questions asked.

Jack Shepherd's quiet life unravels when Plato Karsarkis, the world's most notorious fugitive, asks for help getting a presidential pardon. Soon Jack is caught between a desperate client, American lawmen, and a secret worth killing to protect.

American women are being murdered across Southeast Asia, and nobody with power seems eager for the truth. Inspector Samuel Tay takes the case anyway, following a trail that runs through Singapore, Bangkok, diplomacy, and fear.

Jack Shepherd takes a job with a rich former Thai prime minister living in exile, then realizes the man may be plotting his return by force. Caught between money, politics, and an old relationship, Jack may be the only person who can stop a national disaster.

After devastating bombings tear through American hotels in Singapore, Inspector Tay is pushed off the main case and sent to a quieter death near the Malaysian border. The victim's past pulls him into a deeply personal investigation with roots in terrorism and family history.

A young American software engineer is found dead in Singapore, and the police call it suicide. When reporter Emma Lazar asks Samuel Tay to look closer, he uncovers a story powerful people would much rather keep buried.

Hired to stop money laundering in Macau's casino world, Jack Shepherd stumbles into a second crisis when a frightened North Korean insider offers secrets for asylum. In a city built on money and masks, one wrong move could bury everyone involved.

When a hunt for a feared militant goes wrong in Singapore, Inspector Tay is left with dead bodies, angry superiors, and one baffling clue, a woman watching from a nearby window. Solving it means pushing past the official story before he is pushed out for good.

Jack Shepherd is chasing missing Malaysian billions in Hong Kong when a Thai military coup drags him back into a country he swore off. To save a deposed prime minister from a sham trial and worse, he has to outmaneuver soldiers, financiers, and old loyalties.

Forced into retirement, Samuel Tay agrees to help the shadowy John August investigate an attempted murder, John's own. The trail runs from Thailand to Washington and into the heart of American intelligence, where asking the right question can get Tay killed.

Retired Inspector Tay goes to Hong Kong to find a missing young woman who vanished at Mongkok Station. The search leads him into protest-filled streets, triad territory, and a case that keeps opening into something larger and darker.

In 2000, Jack Shepherd and three other Americans try to learn what al-Qaeda operatives are doing in Bangkok after a secret meeting in Malaysia. They get dangerously close, and later discover how much may have depended on what they missed.

An 86-year-old man living quietly on the Gulf of Thailand is killed by a sniper shot from half a mile away. Samuel Tay digs into Harry Black's past and finds secrets so explosive that solving the case may make him the next target.

After a gunman massacres diplomats at a reception in Bangkok, retired Samuel Tay is asked to help the overwhelmed Thai police. What looks like a clear terrorist outrage turns into a murky hunt through diplomacy, secrecy, and the limits of an aging detective.

A rumored assassin known as the Boogieman may be planning one more spectacular kill in Bangkok. Samuel Tay is drawn back into the chase, racing to find a sniper who might not even exist until it is far too late.

In Malibu in 1992, burned-out lawyer Charlie Trust wants nothing but sun, beer, and a life away from the law. Then a television star begs for help after his wife vanishes, and Charlie is pulled into a murder case full of money, lies, and cameras.

Los Angeles is already glued to the O.J. Simpson chase when Charlie Trust gets a call he never expected, O.J. wants a lawyer. What follows drops Charlie into a city where crime, celebrity, and live television have become impossible to separate.

Charlie Trust agrees to one small favor, give a frightened woman some legal advice during her divorce from a powerful TV producer. When she disappears after handing him evidence of money laundering, Charlie is left holding the truth and all the danger that comes with it.

When a wealthy Malibu couple are executed in their living room, the media instantly decides their son did it. Charlie Trust is not so sure, and stepping between a terrified client and a hungry press circus may cost him everything.