JAKE NEEDHAM is a three-time nominee for the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback Mystery of the Year and has also been a nominee for the International Thriller Writers' award for Best Ebook Thriller of the Year. He is an American screen and television writer who started writing crime novels when he realized he really didn't like movies and television all that much. Since then, he has published fifteen popular thrillers in two different series — The Jack Shepherd Novels and The Inspector Samuel Tay Novels — as well as the international bestseller, THE BIG MANGO. "Jake Needham's the real deal," says Brendan DuBois, New York Times #1 bestselling author. "His characters are moral men and women struggling in an increasingly immoral world, his suspense and plotting are top-notch, and his writing is exquisitely fine. Highly, highly recommended."