Order of Jack Shepherd Books
Jack Shepherd is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction novels by American novelist Jake Needham. Jack Shepherd has left the life he had in Washington in order to move to Bangkok, Thailand. In Bangkok, he teaches at a business school.
Jake Needham began his Jack Shepherd series in 2002 with the novel Laundry Man. Below is a list of Jake Needham’s Jack Shepherd books in order of when they were first released (which is the same as their chronological order):
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Publication Order of The Mean Streets of Asia Crime Novels Books
| The Big Mango | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Laundry Man | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Killing Plato | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ambassador's Wife | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A World of Trouble | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Umbrella Man | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The King of Macau | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead American | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Girl in the Window | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don't Get Caught | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| And Brother It's Starting to Rain | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Chronological Order of The Mean Streets of Asia Crime Novels Books
| The Ambassador's Wife | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Umbrella Man | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Big Mango | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Laundry Man | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Killing Plato | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead American | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A World of Trouble | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Girl in the Window | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The King of Macau | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don't Get Caught | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| And Brother It's Starting to Rain | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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Jack Shepherd Synopsis: Laundry Man by Jake Needham is the first book in the Jack Shepherd series. Once a high-flying international lawyer, a member of the innermost circles of government power, Jack Shepherd has abandoned the savage politics of Washington for the lethargic backwater of Bangkok, where he is now just an unremarkable professor at an unimportant university in an insignificant city. A secretive Asian bank collapses under dubious circumstances. A former law partner Shepherd thought was dead admits he was behind the disgraced bank and coerces Shepherd into helping him track the hundreds of millions of dollars that disappeared in the collapse. A twisting trail of deceit leads Shepherd from Bangkok to Hong Kong and eventually to an isolated villa on the fabled island of Phuket where he confronts the evil at the heart of a monstrous game of international treachery. A lawyer among people who laugh at the law, a friend in a land where today’s allies are tomorrow’s fugitives, Jack Shepherd battles a global tide of corruption, extortion and murder that is fast engulfing the new life he has made for himself in Thailand.