Laundry Man

Over a hundred million dollars vanishes in the collapse of a dodgy Asian bank, and a bunch of dangerous people think Jack Shepherd knows exactly where it went. The problem is, he doesn't have a clue.

Shepherd was once a high-flying Washington lawyer, a man famed for his ability to sniff out even the best hidden financial schemes. But he suddenly realized he was sick of it all, took himself halfway around the world, and became a business school professor at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University. The quiet life in his new tropical paradise is going pretty well for him, too, until one sunny day the past shows up.

A secretive Asian bank run by Shepherd's former law partner collapses under murky circumstances and a lot of money disappears. The bank's depositors aren't the sort of people you want to cross, and Shepherd's old partner says he's a dead man if he doesn't get their money back.

Shepherd agrees to poke around the boardrooms and back alleys of Asia to find out where all that money went, but it doesn't take him long to see that he's in trouble. His former partner has painted a big target on his back, and a lot of people seem to think Shepherd is the guy who made the money disappear in the first place. Now they'll cheerfully kill him to get it back.

If Shepherd isn't going to be the patsy for the bank's collapse, he needs a plan. He's got one, but there's just one thing wrong with it.

It's downright crazy.