by Jake Needham
I took a deep breath and followed Anita as she walked toward him.
Jack Shepherd #2
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Meet Jake Needham
Jake Needham is an American screen and television writer who began writing crime novels when he realized he didn’t really like movies and television very much.
Mr. Needham has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand for over twenty years. He is a lawyer by education and has held a number of significant positions in both the public and private sectors where he took part in a lengthy list of international operations he has no intention of telling you about. He, his wife, and their two sons now divide their time between homes in Thailand and the United States.
Please visit www.JakeNeedham.com to learn more about Jake Needham’s novels and read his ‘Letters from Asia’ in which he tells his readers about some of the real people, places, and things that appear in his novels.
Contents
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
DEDICATION
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY ONE
TWENTY TWO
TWENTY THREE
TWENTY FOUR
TWENTY FIVE
TWENTY SIX
TWENTY SEVEN
TWENTY EIGHT
TWENTY NINE
THIRTY
THIRTY ONE
THIRTY TWO
THIRTY THREE
THIRTY FOUR
THIRTY FIVE
THIRTY SIX
THIRTY SEVEN
THIRTY EIGHT
THIRTY NINE
FORTY
FORTY ONE
FORTY TWO
FORTY THREE
FORTY FOUR
FORTY FIVE
FORTY SIX
FORTY SEVEN
FORTY EIGHT
FORTY NINE
FIFTY
FIFTY ONE
FIFTY TWO
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LAUNDRY MAN, © 2011, 2016 by Jake Raymond Needham
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Ebook edition ISBN 978-616-7611-01-3
Trade paper edition ISBN 978-616-7611-34-1
English-language print publication history
First edition, trade paper: Asia Books Co. Ltd, Bangkok 2000 (a version with significantly different text published as TEA MONEY), ISBN 974-8308-46-2
Second edition, trade paper: Chameleon Press, Hong Kong 2002, ISBN 978-96286-319-26
Third edition, mass market paperback: Prime Crime Press, Hong Kong 2006, ISBN 974-93750-7-6
Fourth edition, trade paper: Marshall Cavendish Int'l, Singapore 2012, ISBN 978-981-4361-27-9
Fifth edition, ebook: Half Penny Ltd, Hong Kong 2012, ISBN 978-616-7611-00-6
Sixth edition, ebook: Half Penny Ltd, Hong Kong 2016, ISBN 978-616-7611-34-1
Seventh edition, trade paper: Half Penny Ltd, Hong Kong 2016, ISBN 978-616-7611-01-3