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Unofficial and Deniable
John Gordon Davis
The sins of the past come home to roost in the New South Africa in the action-packed new novel from a master of the international thriller.The bestselling author of Hold My Hand I’m Dying and Roots of Outrage returns once more to the country he knows best – South Africa – for his heart-thumping new thriller, filled with political intrigue, courtroom drama and high adventure.Since the historic 1994 elections brought in the New South Africa, Jack Harker, a former operative for South African military intelligence, has created a new identity for himself as a publisher in New York, and a new life with writer and activist Josephine Valentine, who knows nothing of his undercover past. But his world is suddenly thrown into turmoil when he hears about the new Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which offers amnesty to those who confess to crimes committed during the dark days of Apartheid, and prosecution to those who do not.If Jack tells the truth about everything he was ordered to do in the service of his country, will Josephine ever be able to forgive him? If he keeps quiet, will former colleagues betray him? And will he even be given the choice? His confession would implicate a lot of powerful people, and it soon becomes clear that they will go to any lengths to ensure he will never be able to testify.
JOHN GORDON DAVIS
UNOFFICIAL & DENIABLE
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Source ISBN: 9780007574407
Ebook Edition © DECEMBER 2014 ISBN: 9780008119348
Version: 2014-12-15
DEDICATION (#ulink_4f476acf-a29d-507d-8812-0b7387a8a433)
To Tana and David Hilton-Barber
CONTENTS
COVER (#uc5ce8d62-b0e8-5ac5-b290-24092f6c962f)
TITLE PAGE (#u39f9802d-29e8-5ad8-9d6a-41396761cd94)
COPYRIGHT (#ulink_f966bfc3-6477-549d-bc9c-21c567a438bd)
DEDICATION (#ulink_d7857503-d2f2-5f3a-b5f6-cd0265b2ff2d)
PROLOGUE (#ulink_c0d0c85f-7cca-5a40-bd4c-631597937971)
PART I (#ulink_c84e70a5-113a-5992-867d-557ace2760b0)
CHAPTER 1 (#ulink_78bda25e-fc6f-564c-a3bb-6881535674f2)
CHAPTER 2 (#ulink_68c40a99-65e5-5475-aa76-89dff75b81a0)
CHAPTER 3 (#ulink_60a5b08e-e9f5-5408-bc19-0d9fd8cb0282)
CHAPTER 4 (#ulink_5a17e5d2-a978-57f5-9915-d7315afc5704)
CHAPTER 5 (#ulink_a75b438b-d200-5d81-8a7c-40d6974251b9)
CHAPTER 6 (#ulink_da228293-1687-57c8-81d8-cb7e385f91a7)
CHAPTER 7 (#ulink_1fccd18a-cd80-56dc-9800-d9bb195ba372)
CHAPTER 8 (#ulink_6b1d9206-587d-5808-9ac3-4564e27aae7a)
CHAPTER 9 (#ulink_6c7115cf-8858-5164-9c6a-b6cf72ba24f3)
CHAPTER 10 (#ulink_8e5cca96-63e7-5185-9cba-23045828ae0e)
CHAPTER 11 (#ulink_135737b4-e498-5309-bb62-9df7a0a31794)
PART II
CHAPTER 12 (#ulink_6aaf09d6-2dd8-52c7-884f-3dcd857d2b89)
CHAPTER 13 (#litres_trial_promo)
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)
CHAPTER 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
PART III
CHAPTER 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
PART IV
CHAPTER 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
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)
CHAPTER 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
PART V
CHAPTER 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 37 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
PART VI (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 39 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 40 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 41 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 42 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 43 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 44 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 45 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 46 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 47 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 48 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 49 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 50 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 51 (#litres_trial_promo)
PART VII
CHAPTER 52 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 53 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 54 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 55 (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER 56 (#litres_trial_promo)
KEEP READING (#litres_trial_promo)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (#litres_trial_promo)
OTHER BOOKS BY (#litres_trial_promo)
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER (#litres_trial_promo)
PROLOGUE (#ulink_a67387ff-5b48-5ece-b301-a3c3ad37bf94)
Andy Meyer, the junior officer on watch in the US Coast Guard station, remembered the yacht dropping anchor in the open channel of St Thomas, American Virgin Islands, in the small hours of that September morning in 1996 because it was not flying a flag. Four hours later, just before dawn, he noticed the yacht steaming out of the channel towards the nearby British Virgin Islands. Meyer hoped the skipper knew what he was doing – there were rocky waters ahead, best navigated in daylight, and technically he should have registered his arrival in American waters before departing. Meyer decided to make an entry in the Log, just to show he had done some work.
The sun was up when the yacht, Rosemary, anchored in the big open bay of Road Town, Tortola, the sleepy little capital of the nearby British Virgin Islands, but it is established by Immigration Department records that it was not until three o’clock that afternoon that the skipper, Sinclair Jonathan Harker, reported his arrival. He appeared, according to Mrs Doris Johnston, the chief immigration officer, to have been drinking; he was nervous, unshaven, wild-looking. He gave his last port of call as Nassau, Bahamas, and produced a crew list certifying that only he and his wife Josephine were aboard. He presented Josephine’s passport, along with his own, but Mrs Johnston told him that Josephine had to report in person. Mrs Johnston then demanded his Nassau port clearance certificate: Harker said he had not known he needed such a document before leaving the Bahamas. Mrs Johnston told him in no uncertain terms that he would have to return to Nassau to get it.
Harker then left Mrs Johnston’s indignant presence, went to the American Express office and telephoned Josephine’s insurance company in New York advising them of her death and asking what procedures he had to follow. He then sent a fax to her attorney, asking the same question, then another to her father, Denys Valentine, in Boston, reporting his daughter’s death, saying he would telephone as soon as he had composed himself. Then, instead of heading to the police station to report her death, he returned to his boat and proceeded to drink a bottle of rum.
