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The Year of Dangerous Loving
John Gordon Davis
An enthralling tale of courtroom drama, blackmail and high adventure in Hong Kong in the last year of British rule, from the bestselling author of Hold My Hand I’m Dying and Roots of Outrage.Adventure, romance, political insight and dramatic locations – ingredients that have established John Gordon Davis as a major name in international adventure thrillers. Now he has added his own experience as a lawyer in Hong Kong to create an action-packed tale, filled with powerful courtroom scenes, set against the dramatic background of a city preparing for political upheaval.Al Hargreave, Hong Kong’s Director of Public Prosecutions, is taking a break in nearby Macao to recover from the collapse of his marriage when he meets Olga, a beautiful Russian. Almost before he knows what’s happening, they are planning a new life together – the only problem is that Olga’s pimp has other ideas.Suddenly Olga is snatched away, and Al is presented with an impossible dilemma. Either he commits professional suicide by intentionally losing a case against a Russian Mafia boss, or he gives up any chance of happiness, and leaves Olga to suffer an unknown fate at the hands of her captors in Moscow.
JOHN GORDON DAVIS
THE YEAR OF
DANGEROUS LOVING
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Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2014 ISBN: 9780008119331
Version: 2014-12-19
Dedication (#ulink_89a3913a-dad5-58e8-b721-918a9be456a4)
To Buck and Diana Buchanan
Contents
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Title Page (#u6c1b832b-3233-599a-b1fc-ff737a681b9b)
Copyright (#ulink_3c91f75a-bca4-5e96-a495-ea41ea3be9c8)
Dedication (#ulink_3e3de18e-93c4-5389-bb05-731ef706b5f7)
Part One
Chapter 1 (#ulink_f3e060db-1906-5b3a-a3fb-130530276b16)
Chapter 2 (#ulink_10810d0d-ba67-5e67-b484-1bb85b86de52)
Chapter 3 (#ulink_54b97c1b-85ea-5c5b-b863-e741aa4d2e8e)
Chapter 4 (#ulink_98193ba7-6f36-5135-8cc6-4b9a4c2a485e)
Part Two
Chapter 5 (#ulink_af86a173-831d-5e51-9861-b09186ab1192)
Chapter 6 (#ulink_78ca3524-2e4b-5e9b-8b38-4c0449b4c684)
Chapter 7 (#ulink_91699544-5978-55b7-9a48-7c74401fe73b)
Chapter 8 (#ulink_1564671f-6dfd-598a-a78d-9f69880e024b)
Chapter 9 (#ulink_63290005-d131-553f-9a19-f4ca2090b09e)
Chapter 10 (#ulink_ee746d2a-8c5c-5805-b148-d9717d19d89e)
Chapter 11 (#ulink_d312f791-da7a-5a4b-bc7f-fc9f97e648eb)
Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Three
Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Four
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Five
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Six
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Seven
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Eight
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41 (#litres_trial_promo)
Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Also by the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Part One (#ulink_0c4e3239-c652-5cac-9f9c-c19cda8a3b93)
1 (#ulink_9f34849c-877d-57e5-a6ca-ef28a5abf62c)
‘Send a policeman to arrest me – I’ve just shot my husband!’
That was the dramatic announcement Elizabeth Hargreave made when she telephoned Jake McAdam at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club that hot Friday night. McAdam thought she must be drunk and he asked to speak to Hargreave.
‘He’s driven himself to hospital,’ Liz said, and hung up.
Then McAdam took it seriously. He went back to the bar and asked Max Popodopolous to go to her immediately and keep her away from the police while he went to look for Hargreave.
McAdam traced him at the Jockey Club Clinic. Ian Bradshaw was in attendance, and said that Hargreave would be all right: the bullet missed the lungs.
‘Thank God for that. How did you get involved in this?’ McAdam asked. Ian Bradshaw was an expensive surgeon who did not hang around casualty departments of hospitals.
‘Called me at the yacht club – he refused to let a government doctor treat him, he doesn’t want any official reports. You can’t see him, he’s still under anaesthetic.’
‘Did he tell you how it happened?’
‘Says it was an accident. Gun went off unintentionally. Don’t say anything to the police. Nor to the press.’
‘Of course not. But the press are going to love this.’
‘How embarrassing,’ Ian said. ‘Did you know the marriage was rocky?’
‘No.’ McAdam added in Liz’s defence: ‘She sounded as if she’d been drinking.’
‘Al had been drinking too. We all drink too much in this town but we don’t wave guns at our spouses. He doesn’t play around, does he?’
‘No,’ McAdam said, ‘nor does Liz.’
‘What will the police do about this?’
‘Nothing, if it was an accident.’
‘But pointing a gun at somebody is a crime, isn’t it?’
