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Jake Needham, a successful American lawyer and screenwriter, is today one of the most popular writers of thrilling fiction novels in Southeast Asia. In the past eighteen years, Jake has published ten popular crime and spy thrillers which are set in some of the region s most exciting countries - Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand. In this interview, which took place on Friday, 6 July 2018 in a suite at the Dusit Thani Bangkok, Jake speaks to Steven Howard of TravelNewsAsia.com to give a little insight into his career, books and love of the region.
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Dean Barrett, an American mystery writer, sits in an English-style tavern that is one of his remaining old haunts in Bangkok, sipping a black Russian cocktail as he ponders the curious quirks of fate.
“My story is very simple,” says Barrett, a lanky 78-year-old with a moustache and a mischievous smile. “I love Chinese culture and history. But I’m sitting here and not at some American university as a professor.”
The reason is that, in 1965, the Connecticut native enlisted in the US Army so he could learn Chinese at a military-run language institute in California. “Having trained me as a translator for a year, the army put me on a plane to Bangkok,” he says. “All I knew was that it was in Southeast Asia.”