“The gritty and taut KILLING PLATO is 100% unadulterated attitude.” — The Singapore Straits Times
“Jake Needham is a classic master of crime, intrigue, and edgy thrillers.”– James Grady, New York Times best-selling author of SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR
Jack Shepherd was a politically connected American lawyer until he traded the fierce intrigues of Washington for the quiet life of a college … traded the fierce intrigues of Washington for the quiet life of a college professor in Thailand. Everything had been going pretty well for him there, too, at least it had until the day he walked into a bar on the jet-set island of Phuket and found the world’s most famous fugitive waiting for him.
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 money laundering. There’s also the matter of a woman he may or may not have murdered to cover it all up. When Karsarkis fled the United States and disappeared, the world’s media whipped itself into a frenzy searching for him.
Karsarkis is waiting for Shepherd in that Phuket bar because he wants to hire him. He figures a presidential pardon would be his ticket back to America, and he thinks Shepherd’s connections to the White House just might get it for him. But the U.S. Marshals are in Phuket, too, and they need Shepherd’s help as well. The marshals want Shepherd to set a trap for Karsarkis so they can grab him and drag him back to New York. All Shepherd wants is for everybody to go away and leave him alone.
At least he does until he learns a chilling secret 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.
The marshals aren’t really in Phuket to arrest Plato Karsarkis. They’re there to kill him.
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I really enjoyed the plot and action of this book, particularly since I’ve been to Thailand . Hated the ending. It just stopped. I don’t think everything has to be resolved but it was like the author couldn’t decide how to end it so just put a period at the end if the last sentence.
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Just okay. I din’t like Jack. I really didn’t like his wife. The book got a bit tedious. And, really, if you had the money and influence Plato had, and you knew everyone wanted to kill you, your Jag would be bulletproof/armored.
Great – can’t put down fiction. Excellent exciting book with action on every page.
Plot was somewhat confusing and the climax was disappointing as it left unanswered questions for the reader.
So bad i didn’t bother finishing it.
I didn’t really care for this book, but that really is about me, rather than the book itself. The characters are quite interesting, the plot well structured.
When I read, I like to feel a connection about the characters. This group of them tried hard, they simply didn’t ping whatever part of my brain gets engrossed in a story.
I enjoyed the Incite into some Thai culture…
Build up to the ending was intrguing, end was a let down.