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Chapter 25 (#u10dce67d-e196-57c8-b67b-3e51c25e4581)
Chapter 26 (#u138bda52-51bc-5cbc-b7aa-0a88eb322ce1)
Chapter 27 (#u63df8240-42a2-57f5-92cf-3b7f0c65fa01)
Chapter 28 (#u05cf3f3d-318e-5e5b-9261-5e5d1fc782c1)
Chapter 29 (#ude9fe91b-807f-5d1f-9af4-9ae8a8cb5383)
Chapter 30 (#uda21892c-cd4a-5a8b-bad6-5325859dbe11)
Chapter 31 (#u63005121-dd93-5a16-a742-58fc30ea9cc8)
Chapter 32 (#ua426b2b6-8c3d-56ea-b333-23d1e21190d4)
Chapter 33 (#u9eaa81a9-ac67-598f-88b6-91e452127d12)
Chapter 34 (#u36e111f8-1a90-5de7-b4a3-d9bf96da2abc)
Chapter 35 (#u26dba7ea-1743-50fa-bcc5-b26355c88e68)
Chapter 36 (#u56fbc1b6-5e02-5fe9-9c68-a52c3caddc8d)
Chapter 37 (#ub4740595-6839-571f-b638-abbb6eae1de2)
Chapter 38 (#ucc5de35f-368d-5a21-9567-4c639286f5f8)
Chapter 39 (#u446c18e3-3d02-503e-a25f-f04d32d065cf)
Chapter 40 (#u887c1a0a-f1c1-538f-9433-13d3f2d59b31)
Chapter 41 (#u52f8d244-270b-5ab0-bf6c-13ac2f90bfb5)
Chapter 42 (#ubb875301-dde1-597d-8363-fe5dc5995ad2)
Chapter 43 (#u174f6324-ec33-5a9b-bf6f-1606e72c3781)
Chapter 44 (#u63285e72-3c3c-5200-af12-df671935c904)
Chapter 45 (#ua5c74e90-b7ee-5e0e-8a9c-f126b0fbe885)
Part III: Over and Out (#uf4ac2d60-712d-53de-afe5-834edc8baa0d)
Chapter 1 (#udaccebcf-b45c-519a-b62f-11f88d2d2093)
Chapter 2 (#uc1e2130a-34f2-526c-a724-79febb52cc50)
Chapter 3 (#u238eb4b0-aef8-5084-87d8-96bf8a472f0d)
Chapter 4 (#ub9b02cd5-c5b7-594e-815e-ed3d5d0679d8)
Chapter 5 (#u8de21f9b-1138-539e-8488-2b39d44b8cc1)
Chapter 6 (#u5e65ea39-7898-5e3a-8ba9-4f0daf24363d)
Chapter 7 (#u809a4301-1c13-5c36-bc9e-e97c3af9ab03)
Chapter 8 (#uccb63dbd-4fc2-5539-8a71-ad8b9f587651)
Chapter 9 (#u32e36bb8-ba81-562f-ba44-f0913c931274)
Chapter 10 (#u8b630a15-46ca-552a-a0f9-5dae3bbafdd2)
Chapter 11 (#u69d7934d-35c6-5e95-8d3c-8bbed4557666)
Chapter 12 (#u56109465-d70c-5a06-a39c-518c7f55da60)
Chapter 13 (#ue4b0cbe7-6049-5df9-9284-b62fe91ee504)
Chapter 14 (#ueb49f5b4-0671-5203-abb8-5314c15be12f)
Chapter 15 (#ubc452ba6-629f-57d8-993c-f8d5e55db7ef)
Chapter 16 (#uf3c5c3e7-2fd5-5ba1-9fdd-e35a97f9f42d)
Chapter 17 (#uf3823808-2024-5f68-b79a-06e03d6f34e2)
Chapter 18 (#ufe3b24a3-18a8-5f61-9804-a812467a50ba)
Chapter 19 (#ud8a5696c-7afe-5ed5-9315-937cb2498ab3)
Chapter 20 (#ufdb8c3f6-61c9-5085-a287-653783d76c93)
Chapter 21 (#u6c4a2675-c88b-5448-9739-003ef52d0f4a)
Chapter 22 (#uc06442ff-2379-5195-9417-2478c411bab8)
Chapter 23 (#u3f33f535-0910-59ff-8d32-1e78c643daaf)
Chapter 24 (#udfbb4e2c-5c7e-59ad-b85b-325b22109815)
Chapter 25 (#u4acfa1f8-d7d4-5020-8f3a-dc95db6b36fe)
Chapter 26 (#u7ce385da-4545-553c-ac5e-a806cf3330b5)
Chapter 27 (#u55c8f331-04f5-5212-bdad-91496aa64533)
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Chapter 29 (#uba54a6cf-0459-5a39-8f17-706d636ec444)
Chapter 30 (#ue383d714-574d-58d5-8db6-18dd8dbcf1cd)
Chapter 31 (#u3ef20aad-8001-5517-b7ae-6ce779fb2797)
Chapter 32 (#u5d02d7b1-79db-5245-811b-e5372ccd381d)
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Chapter 39 (#u02c39f51-1155-526b-9401-46c27817ccfb)
Chapter 40 (#u5313f3d0-28ae-5494-9e22-993f16f16735)
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Chapter 52 (#uba1ff1dc-ca92-5580-8ff5-4eb5e23df2b2)
Chapter 53 (#uaa464312-1763-56ba-8236-c9f751762b48)
About the Authors (#uded87aa7-0889-504c-a0f8-a28c5c2280ab)
About the Publisher (#ue51f8728-2b6f-5885-9572-bbafd4a20d65)
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1 (#u9a2c06e8-c329-557d-8e48-2c39a09ab69e)
He barely noticed the car on his tail, holding just behind and to the right, where it shouldn’t be. Yet somehow he could sense the danger lurking over his shoulder.
Unfortunately, as he made his way along the freeway into Birmingham, Special Constable Freddy Calder’s conscious mind was elsewhere. In fact, he was on the car-phone.
‘Hi, John. Look here, I’ll be with you in …’
Raising his wrist with a snap, almost a salute, Freddy checked his Rolex – actually, an imitation Rolex, but at a quick glance no one was ever the wiser.
‘… twenty minutes. And, old chum, what I have to show you is sensational.’
His gaze momentarily shifted to the sample case lying on the passenger seat, open just enough to offer a tantalizing glimpse of lingerie, a pair of sheer lace panties to be exact. Freddy’s talent was to imagine just how they would look on virtually anyone he knew, or thought he knew, or even conceived in his waking dreams of knowing. Of course, lying on the back seat was his model, ‘Salvador Dolly’, a curvaceous cut-out figure of an ideal woman wearing only her underwear every hour of the day.
‘Listen, this latest stuff’s so light you better hold on tight to your secretary when she wears them.’
They shared a low, lascivious laugh reserved for men talking about women. Whenever he sensed a customer had the same thoughts in mind, Freddy would start counting his money.
Accidentally and simultaneously, his car veered into the right lane, although he made a swift correction in steering with a slight move of his finger. It was then that he noticed the car on his tail: a maroon Audi, a ‘mean machine’. Suddenly he was alert, but gave no outward or visible sign of alarm.
‘Well, ’course in that case she’s travelling as light as she can get. Yeah. Fantasy Island … Don’t we all! See you.’
Before he could put away the car-phone and look back to his wing mirror, he heard a Luftwaffe motor roaring behind him. Getting louder, the Audi pulled in parallel with him, then swerved toward him and back, as if testing his mettle, before finally surging ahead full throttle.
Freddy cursed. The fool in the mean machine didn’t realize whom he was fooling with. Never cross Freddy Calder.
The chase was on. Guarding his intent – Freddy didn’t want the fool to know it yet – he tucked his blue Sierra neatly in behind the Audi and started a little tailing of his own. His Sierra provided the ultimate camouflage: not new, perhaps, but trim, tidy, respectable, bright as a button, polished by a lingerie salesman’s loving hands and totally inconspicuous in ordinary traffic.
Freddy reached for the car-phone and punched the number for Divisional Headquarters ‘S’ while keeping his aim fixed on the Audi ahead. Moment by moment, the solitary suspect appeared to be accelerating, forcing the pace, maybe trying to shake his tail.
Nevertheless Freddy Calder was on the case. His mood had changed with his identity: now he was a secret agent of the law – a Special – trailing someone in a hurry.
‘Put me through to Sheila Baxter in Control, would you, Bill? Yeah, it’s Freddy Calder here.’
There was no reason to assume that the response would be immediate, efficient or professionally respectful. Nor was it.
‘Fred-dy Cal-der … Sure I’ll hold, but this is important.’
Damn the bureaucratic mind. It was this kind of red tape, he reflected, that had delayed Napoleon’s conquest of Russia, which would have been better for everyone concerned, as history had demonstrated …
