Killing Plato The Jack Shepherd novels Volume 2 Jake Needham Books
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“The gritty and taut KILLING PLATO is 100% unadulterated attitude. Needham’s provocative views about Asian culture jump at you from every page.” —Singapore Straits Times
Jack Shepherd was a politically connected American lawyer until he 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.
Killing Plato The Jack Shepherd novels Volume 2 Jake Needham Books
What do lawyers use for birth control? Their personalities! That about describes the protagonist in this book. I didn't much care for Jack Shepard, but he was a lawyer; who could! (Kidding, Jake!) And his wife was even worse. So why five stars? Because I loved the book! You don't have to love the characters to love the book! The descriptions of people and their actions are spot on! The gauche, unsympathetic, totally oblivious Australian woman at a dinner party talking trash about Thai women in the presence of Thai women? I've seen it! Fat, loud, obnoxious American pilots wives sitting around O clubs, being served by beautiful, petite, and ultra feminine oriental women wondering aloud what Caucasian men see in them. Yep, Jake Needham brings it all back Other reviewers have commented about the ending. Yes, the ending, like the ending of Chinatown, is very noir. If you don't like noir, then chances are you won't like the ending of this. Personally, I find it very realistic; not contrived as some happy ending scenario might have been. Well worth the read. I'll be reading the rest of the series. .Product details
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Killing Plato The Jack Shepherd novels Volume 2 Jake Needham Books Reviews
Why a good writer, and the author is good, would have as his "hero" such a disagreeable man is beyond me. On a positive note, the plot is good, the characters well developed, but from there it's downhill. Our hero thinks anyone giving him info is joking, and he is a wise cracking, arrogant, insufferable idiot. Three quarters of the way through the book I was rooting for someone to shoot him and put me out of my misery. The only reason I skimmed to the end of the book was to finish the plot. And like many authors, this one pads his book with way too many descriptions of local "color". How many times can you describe a trashy street and palm trees? But having a "hero" who I wouldn't like in real life, is a deal killer for me so I won't be reading any more of the author's works. Spoiler alert I can see why our hero's wife left him. I would have too.
There have been numerous posts here that address the storyline. I don't feel a need to add to it and usually don't. I prefer to focus on the expertise of the writer in telling the story and how characters are developed. I believe Jake Needham has great skill in keeping the story on the edge with things happening that may not be what the reader has guessed. There are a lot of surprises and I like the way that keeps things moving along. As for the characters, there is a variety of good vs. evil with a few in-betweens that can compel a reader to like them regardless of their role in the way of things. I didn't particularly like Anita, Jack's wife. She was totally whiny and constantly wanting to have her way. One could almost see her stamping her foot and frothing at the mouth when things didn't go her way. Poor Jack Shepherd. I felt sorry for him.
I enjoyed reading this novel. The main reason I gave it five stars is I can see the vast amount of work that went into the creation of the background material, and that must have taken a good amount of time to research. I like the way it's written peppered throughout with a real sense of place and culture. It was fascinating to have a glimpse of a setting that is seldom seen in novels. At least those I have read usually take place in more familiar locales like London, Tokyo, Paris, countless landscapes of the British Country and of course, the United States. I would enjoy reading more novels featuring Jack Shepherd.
I had never been to Phuket (we pronounced it “foo-cat”) but for the year I was stationed in Thailand we considered it the place to visit. Instead, I went to Bangkok for my R&R so I could get a Kobe steak. You have to understand, back then Coors was THE beer to die for if you lived outside California. It had to be kept cold while in transit because it was unpasteurized. The taste, so we believed, was the best tasting beer (period).
Likewise, we were told Kobe steak was the legendary cut of beef that any steak lover just had to have while in Thailand.
But, I digress.
I gave this book 5 stars because 1 it took me back to what I said above, and 2. because reading it reminded me of one of my most memorable years of where I was stationed while in the service.
I don’t re tell story lines in my reviews. I like to review a book for its plot, character development, rising and falling action, anti-climax (where warranted) and resolution.
This book hit on all cylinders. The plot had me throughout the entirety of the read. I thought the protagonist, Jack Shepherd was believable and well cast. He had a sense of bravado that was fun to follow and was only exceeded by his glib sense of humor. I liked the main antagonist, Plato Karsarkis, He was one “cool dude” with his bon vivant attitude and skilled ability to amass great fortune, if not always legitimate. There were several antagonists, but the two who most stood out to me were CW and Billy Redwine. Speaking of the latter, he was cast to be the most pivotal character in the book. Unfortunately, to say anything more about him would be a **Spoiler Alert**.
CW was cast to play an important role re what was to happen to Plato Karsarkis, but it didn’t turn out that way. He was more just a bumbling self absorbed low life bounty hunter.
The book had rising action virtually to the end of the story. Falling action was swift and very poignant, not quite an anti climax in my opinion,
I thought the story resolved well at the end.
Mr. Needham is a skilled story teller. This was not my first introduction to this writer. I have the book which followed this one, “A World of Trouble”. It is also a Jack Shepherd crime thriller.
I’m going to look forward to reading it.
I read all of Jake Needham's Jack Shephard novels pretty quickly and was sad to have reached the end of the series still wanting more realizing that none were coming. Then, I started to read his Samuel Tay novels and went through 3 of his 4 novels on a single trip. The final one, The Girl in the Window is so effing good that I am now 67% through it and am limiting myself to reading just a few pages per day to keep this one going as long as I can. While all three earlier ones were good, this one, by far, is the best one, and I hope he keeps them coming!
What do lawyers use for birth control? Their personalities! That about describes the protagonist in this book. I didn't much care for Jack Shepard, but he was a lawyer; who could! (Kidding, Jake!) And his wife was even worse. So why five stars? Because I loved the book! You don't have to love the characters to love the book! The descriptions of people and their actions are spot on! The gauche, unsympathetic, totally oblivious Australian woman at a dinner party talking trash about Thai women in the presence of Thai women? I've seen it! Fat, loud, obnoxious American pilots wives sitting around O clubs, being served by beautiful, petite, and ultra feminine oriental women wondering aloud what Caucasian men see in them. Yep, Jake Needham brings it all back Other reviewers have commented about the ending. Yes, the ending, like the ending of Chinatown, is very noir. If you don't like noir, then chances are you won't like the ending of this. Personally, I find it very realistic; not contrived as some happy ending scenario might have been. Well worth the read. I'll be reading the rest of the series. .
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