The Big Mango
Jake Needham
- "THE
- BIG
- MANGO
- is
- a
- classic"
- --
- Crime
- Reads$400
- million
- is
- in
- the
- wind,
- more
- than
- ten
- tons
- of
- cash,
- the
- result
- of
- a
- bungled
- CIA
- operation
- to
- grab
- the
- foreign
- currency
- reserves
- of
- the
- Bank
- of
- Vietnam
- when
- the
- Americans
- fled
- Saigon
- in
- 1975.A
- couple
- of
- decades
- later,
- the
- word
- on
- the
- street
- is
- that
- all
- that
- money
- somehow
- ended
- up
- in
- Bangkok
- and
- a
- downwardly
- mobile
- lawyer
- from
- California
- named
- Eddie
- Dare
- is
- the
- only
- guy
- left
- alive
- who
- might
- have
- a
- chance
- at
- figuring
- out
- where
- it
- is.Eddie
- knows
- nothing
- about
- the
- missing
- money.
- At
- least,
- he
- doesn't
- think
- he
- does.
- But
- so
- many
- people
- claim
- he's
- got
- an
- inside
- track
- on
- finding
- it
- that
- he
- and
- an
- old
- marine
- buddy
- named
- Winnebago
- Jones
- decide
- to
- head
- for
- Bangkok
- anyway
- and
- do
- a
- little
- treasure
- hunting.
- What
- do
- they
- have
- to
- lose?Their
- lives,
- as
- it
- turns
- out.
- When
- they
- plunge
- into
- the
- jagged
- netherworld
- of
- modern-day
- Bangkok,
- it
- doesn't
- take
- long
- for
- things
- to
- get
- really
- weird.From
- the
- Big
- Apple,
- to
- the
- Big
- Orange,
- to
- the
- Big
- Mango.
- You
- have
- to
- admit
- it
- has
- a
- kind
- of
- nutty
- logic
- to
- it.
- Bangkok
- is
- about
- as
- far
- from
- California
- as
- Eddie
- can
- get
- without
- sailing
- completely
- over
- the
- edge
- of
- the
- world.Although,
- at
- times,
- he
- wonders
- if
- that
- isn't
- exactly
- what
- he
- has
- done."There's
- no
- room
- for
- improvement.
- THE
- BIG
- MANGO
- is
- as
- good
- as
- it
- gets."
- --
- The
- Bangkok Post
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