The King of Macau

Author/Guide: Jake Needham

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: Visit the city of Macau in this fast paced thriller

ISBN: B00HWWVPBW
Genre: Fiction, Thriller

Comment

What you need to know before your trail

Jack Shepherd is a lawyer but he has left the acrid life of a Washington lawyer far behind and now he works by himself in Hong Kong. He works quietly to solve the problems his big-money clients don’t want anyone else to know they have.

One of the world’s largest casino operators discovers a massive money-laundering scheme targeting its casino in Macau and they ask Jack Shepherd to shut it down.

Shepherd is in Macau ducking Chinese gangsters and searching for the source of the black money swamping the casinos when he is sucked into a bizarre caper. A man who knows the most secret schemes of the North Korean government has found out that Shepherd still has high-level connections in Washington. He wants Shepherd to slip him out of Macau and get him political asylum in America.

Shepherd has a fight on his hands.

Locations

Reset

Travel Guide

Macau

Macau is a tiny place on the South China Coast that is the biggest gambling center on earth. It is also a stronghold of Chinese organized crime, which makes it a dicey place for a white guy to go around asking too many questions.

It’s described as the Casablanca on the South China Sea, or even the “Las Vegas of Asia” – a bubbling caldron of gunrunners, money launderers, hustlers, gangsters, gamblers, con men, and spies. He joins forces with the daughter of a shadowy old man everybody calls the King of Macau to outwit the Chinese gangsters and shut down the black money flow. At the same time, he has to battle a gaggle of North Korean hit men to try and bring his defector in alive.