In Bangkok, everyone gets the chance to start over. Few questions are asked.
When American criminal defense lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen took a bundle of cash from a murdered client and moved to Thailand and a new life, he thought his troubles were over forever.
Glenn forms friendships and seeks love, spending much of his time at the mysterious NJA Club. After seven years, this pleasant life is threatened when American agents come calling, pressuring him to undertake a dangerous task for which he is woefully unprepared, drawing him into an underbelly of corruption, criminal activity and international intrigue hidden in the shadows of Bangkok. This first novel in the acclaimed NJA Club Series is an exotic noir thriller by a master of the genre.
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Author Bio:
Stephen Shaiken practiced criminal law in for more than thirty five years, the first four in Brooklyn, and the rest in San Francisco. His decades as a criminal trial lawyer are often reflected in his writing. He is a graduate of Queens College and Brooklyn Law School, and earned an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He currently splits his time between Bangkok, Thailand, and Tampa, Florida. (When the current pandemic permits.)
Bangkok Blues is Stephen’s third NJA novel was just released and features the same characters as the first two, while introducing several more. It’s also the first of the three written in the third person, so readers learn what the other characters are thinking and what they are doing when not with Glenn, who narrated the first two novels from his point of view.
Stephen’s three NJA Club novels are best described as exotic noir thrillers, but he also writes historical fiction, humor, literary and science fiction. Several of his short stories in these genres were published; those and others are posted on his blog.
Stephen will soon release a different kind of novel, set in New York City in the late sixties era, against the backdrop of a young rock and roll manager struggling to break from the second-tier Queens rock scene to the glamor and stardom of Manhattan.
When he isn’t writing, Stephen enjoys travel, gardening, yoga, guitar, and following politics and current events with a passion. He’s a voracious reader of fiction and non-fiction in too many genres and subjects to list.
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