Jake Needham is the author of four contemporary crime novels published in Hong Kong and a dozen screenplays produced in the United States.
 
Jake’s novels are distributed and sold only in Asia. Although they occasionally turn up online among the listings of big international booksellers like Amazon where they are generally described as ‘unavailable’ or ‘out of print’, none of Jake’s novels have ever been sold through any of these booksellers or through any other bookseller outside of Asia, at least not legally; and none of his novels are out of print. In fact, more than 65,000 copies are currently in print in four languages. Perhaps Amazon just assumes that any book that isn’t sold through them must be out of print. Regardless, here are two online book sellers in Asia where the English-language editions of Jake’s books are legally sold: Select Books in Singapore and Megabooks in Bangkok.
 
Born in Texas longer ago than he now cares to remember, Jake graduated from both Rice University in Houston and the Georgetown University National Law Center in Washington, DC. Formerly a television and a print journalist and a practicing  attorney, Jake lived in Washington, Los Angeles, Sydney, and Hong Kong, before stumbling first into screenwriting and then into publishing crime novels through a series of accidents too improbable to be believed anymore.
 
Jake and his wife, a concert pianist, now live in Hawaii. They have two sons, James and Charles.