Louise Bagshawe

PrologueIt was a terrible thing, the old man thought, to be so rich, and to be so bored.Clement Chambers sat, stretched out on a veranda chair, on the terrace of his mansion in the Seychelles, looking down over the cliffs, across a verdant hillside towards the sea.His estate had a spectacular view...

Chapter 1'Alan Pell's coming round in five minutes,' Keisha announced.'Lucky you,' I said grumpily.'Yeah.' Keisha preened, stretching her elegant black back like a prizewinning Siamese. 'He says there's a job going down at Up and Running.' She tugged her tiny Gucci cardigan disapprovingly round her...

Prologue Dimitri síid the photograph across the desk. They were on the fourth floor of a nondescript office building. Outside, rush-hour traffic was just starting to build up on the Königstrasse. He had already been at work for four hours. The hunt had started. The first/ His operative took the...