Review: Senior Inspector Samuel Tay does the "Singapore Swivel"  like...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 28, 2012
... Mike Jaggger does the "Harlem Shuffle"!!!About five years after his first adventure in theAmbassador's Wife, Sam is now fully inside some kind of midlife crisis that borders on wallowing himself in self-pity.OK - since he'd solved those highly charged murders he's mostly handling cases like that of Mayling Aw - a Chinese illegal alien who killed her baby and wanted to jump off a 12-story building. So it is exactly because of Mayling Aw that our good Inspector is at the center of it all the night Singapore begins to bleed...And this second case for Senior Inspector Sam Tay is literally more explosive than his first!>>The first bomb cracked the Hilton like an egg; the second gutted the lobby of the Marriott; and the third peeled the front off the Grand Hyatt. Three massive explosions, all at American hotels in the heart of the city, and all within a few horrifying seconds. Hundreds are dead and thousands are injured.<<And that's not enough for those sadistic barbarians - and Sam Tay swears that he will find every one of them and kill them with his own hands ...But Samuel Tay MAY be a senior inspector in the Special Investigation Section of Singapore CID, but he is left out of this investigation from the start. He has made serious enemies in Singapore's Internal Security Department, and he has even more at the American Embassy. So while his colleagues join the SID and the USA's CIA, FBI etc. in a 24/7 search for the bombers - obviously terrorists from Jemaah Islamiyah aimed at the Americans - he investigates a "suspicious" murder in the Woodland district near the Malaysian border together with his loyal Sergeant Robbie Kang ...But his gut instincts are telling him that the death of that elderly man is related to the bombings. And that they were specifically aimed at Singaporean owned hotels and malls and their resident workers ...So Tay is judging these attacks as the carefully planned work of a group tired of waiting for real democracy to develop in Singapore, being "the only unanimous democracy of the world". A case of "domestic terrorism" ...And with the help of an old friend he unravels mysteries that have their deep roots in his own past, especially those about his father's early death. And he will meet the "Umbrella Man" - and so will You.If You read this really special crime story about a town which has nothing to do with the nick "Singa-Bore" You often may hear. Very well constructed with surprising twists and turns!And You will discover the meaning of the "Singapore Swivel" which Samuel Tay is doing so masterly together with his Commissioner at the CID ...Jake Needham has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand for over twenty-five years. He is a lawyer by education and he and his family divide their time between Bangkok and New York. Learn more about him, his debut novel about BangkokThe Big Mango, his books about Bangkok-based ex-lawyer Jack ShepherdLaundry Man,Killing PlatoandWorld of Trouble- a forth oncoming set in Macau - on his website jakeneedham.com .And maybe You also subscribe to his "Letters from Asia" with all the news from Southeast Asia - I did it and am very happy with the informations and fotos he's posting.I liked this second novel about Samuel Tay very much and like all his fans I hope that there will be a third book about this now so well developed character before he will be forced into an early retirement ... :)(This review is for the kindle version bought on amazon.it)