They did not know how deeply Manage Risk was embedded into the security apparatus of southern Iraq, and so they decided to avoid having her name on the passenger manifest of a flight into the country. Instead, she would be driven across the border to Basra. It had been agr...
Grace looked over at her with alarm. Beatrix dried her hands as there came a second impact and then, as she started to the door, a third. This one was immediately followed by the noise of a door splintering. Beatrix stood at the door and put her eye...
It was eleven when she passed out of the station exit and emerged onto the Tsim Sha Shui street outside. The atmosphere was hectic, a shifting morass of revellers piling into and out of the station. The street was lit by an onslaught of flashing neon that advertised the businesses nearby: the vas...
It was just what he did. Everyone had a talent: some men had a facility for numbers, some for making things, some for language; hell, others could swing a bat and send a ball screaming away to the fences. Governor Robinson was a speaker, and Arlen Crawford had known it within five seconds of hear...
She wondered which one was Chau’s. She wondered which one she would need to take to bring her closer to Isabella. A flight to London? Paris? Somewhere in America? She couldn’t answer the question. She didn’t even know which country her daughter was in. She left the airport...