[Jack Shepherd 02] • Killing Plato

Jack Shepherd was a well-connected Washington lawyer until he traded the fierce intrigues of politics for the quiet life in Thailand. Then one day he walks into a bar on the jet-set island of Phuket and finds the world’s most famous fugitive waiting for him.

Plato Karsarkis was rich and famous, an international celebrity straight out of the pages of Vanity Fair, when a New York grand jury indicted him for smuggling Iraqi oil and charged him with racketeering and money laundering. There was also the matter of a woman he may or may not have murdered to cover it all up. Karsarkis goes on the run, fleeing the United States and disappearing, and the world’s media goes wild.

Karsarkis is waiting in that Phuket bar to hire Shepherd. He wants a presidential pardon so he can return to American and he knows Shepherd’s connections to the White House can get it for him. But the U.S. Marshals are in Phuket, too. They’re there to kidnap Karsarkis and they want Shepherd to help them set a trap. Shepherd just wants both of them to go away and leave him alone.

At least he does until he discovers a chilling secret which plunges him into a violent spiral of friendship and betrayal and hurls him straight back into the life he thought he had left behind in Washington.

The Marshals aren’t really in Phuket to arrest Plato Karsarkis at all.

They’re there to kill him.