Bill For The Use Of A Body (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
The ship-owner’s explanation had been faultless, his distress at his son’s gangster-like act and concern that he should not marry Merri had carried conviction. Captain Dosen’s attitude towards Julian fully supported his employer’s insistence that both of them were innocent and, finally, Urata’s not having sought to influence Julian in his choice of a place to meet Hayashi seemed the clearest possible indication that they were not working together. But once bitten twice shy. Having so very narrowly escaped being forced to make a voyage to Honolulu under most unpleasant conditions, Julian did not intend, if he could possibly help it, to expose himself to any more tricks by the Uratas: either father or son. If the father was acting honestly, he reasoned, be had left Bill in Osaka and would take reasonable steps to see that he remained there. If not the odds were that Bill was back in Kyoto and that, together, they were by now planning some fresh attempt to get hold of the Kuan-yin for Hayashi without his either giving up Merri or having to pay for it.
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