Thailawforum recently spoke with
famed,
Asia crime novelist, JakeNeedham,
in a video this past week. The interview, which was conducted at the luxurious
Bangkok JW Marriot, was filled with anecdotes, past memories, and comments
regarding living in
Asia as an expatriate.
Needham, a former lawyer and screenwriter in Hollywood, gives insight into how he crafts his novels by
paying attention to headlines in Asia. Having
spent most of his time living in Asia, mostly Thailand,
Singapore and Hong Kong, most of his novels, characters and setting are
based in these locations. He recounts that people use to always ask him if his
characters were based on real people because his descriptions are often so well
done, but he shrugs it off as coincidental, “I make this stuff up,” he says
referring to his popular Thailand based novel, King of Macao, which
featured a familiar Thailand Prime Minister character that was ousted by a
coup.
See full video here:
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