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THIS IS A SHORT STORY It's 1999 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, visits Kuala Lumpur to untangle a complication in his love life. A chance encounter in the Hard Rock Cafe leads to an unexpected assignment and a slew of dead bodies.

THIS IS A SHORT STORY It's 1987 and Bill Jedburgh is still an inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police recently transferred to G4, the VIP Protection Unit. When he and his colleagues are assigned to protect a visiting dignitary from London matters very nearly go wrong and Jedburgh meets some interesting characters who will influence him later in life.

THIS IS A SHORT STORY The Reliable Man is tasked with a highly political assassination in his own back yard. He's unsure whether to take the job but finally agrees. For this one he is planning to use the Sig Sauer SSG 3000 sniper rifle, not his usual weapon of choice but there are particular reasons why it is an effective tool. However, as always, things don't entirely go to plan.

After dumping her boorish boyfriend, Madeleine LeMesurier takes a break from her job at a Hong Kong-based detective agency and signs up for a scuba diving holiday in Thailand. Despite the presence of hunky Australian investment banker Robert Maine on the dive boat, the vacation turns out far from idyllic when a series of strange accidents, a missing diver, and a baffling death occur. It seems not everyone on the boat is who they claim to be.

Denby LaRouche is a bright, athletic lawyer who works as the in-house counsel for an old-style Hong Kong trading firm. Although she loves the challenges of her job and doesn't miss what she left behind in London, her love life in the bustling harbour metropolis has been a disappointment so far. Most of the attractive Western men are busy pursuing big money and the doe-eyed Oriental girls. So when she meets the charming Randolph Cheng she has no expectations and tries to banish him from her thoughts. But this is harder than she thinks. As she applies her legal skills and female intuition to ...

It's Christmas 1999 and the Reliable Man has taken time off from his usual work to spend the holidays with his buddy Ed Cleveland in Los Angeles. But before they get a chance to hit the hot nightspots there is another party going down at the airport ...

To begin with Roderick Pang was dead. Dead as a door-nail. Bill Jedburgh meets three Ghosts and has to decide what the future might hold for him. His sniper rifles range from the Lee Enfield Enforcer with the Parker-Hale sight, across the Heckler & Koch PSG1 with the Brugget & Thomet optics and finally he gets to use the Barrett M82 with a Leupold sight. You might very well say: Bah, humbug!

THIS IS A SHORT STORY It’s 1998 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun for hire is on his way to Hua Hin with his new toy: an Accuracy International Arctic Warfare sniper rifle. All he wants to do is put the weapon through its paces and have a relaxing weekend with his girlfriend, but somehow he ends up in a pistol duel. Without his trusty Glock he has to quickly get familiar with the Ruger Mark II.

Assistant Director Tom Pearce and Chief Investigator Becky Li of the Independent Commission Against Corruption are getting ready for a major arrest. Meanwhile Annabel Beckett has been sent to Hong Kong to figure out who has stolen $US 300 million from one of her bank's clients. The fact that she's secretly dating the client's son doesn't make her task any easier. And who is killing off all the bankers?

When Emma Longford comes back home to Hong Kong, the last thing she wants to do is get involved with her family’s furniture business. But when the company that was founded by her grandfather is threatened by corrupt government officials, dangerous competitors and a suspicious fire she is forced to step up and help her father. As she battles to save her family's business it becomes obvious that not all the people that surround her can be trusted. Can Emma save the firm and the livelihood of all their employees?

Bill Jedburgh, a former inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police, is hired by Brigadier Wee of the Singapore Intelligence Department to supervise the close protection detail of an influential Indonesian politician. But within hours of landing in Jakarta his assignment starts going wrong: the attractive but temperamental Sabrinah Darwis keeps crossing his path and it doesn't help when his occasional employer and close friend, the wealthy businessman Harry Bolt, asks him for help. Then the dead bodies start piling up. Will the Reliable Man be able to live up to his reputation? THIS IS A ...

It is 2006. With Thailand facing political uncertainty, Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, travels to Dubai to free his half-sister Caroline from jail. In Dubai, the Boffin Twins – known as the Golden Dustmen - force him to pay off his sister’s debt with an assignment that takes the Reliable Man deep into the labyrinthine complexity of Middle Eastern politics as he bounces from Beirut to Basra via Oman and Chad, in pursuit of a criminal gang who are trying to steal millions of dollars of misplaced US aid. Some comments from readers: “Goldsilk...

Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun for hire, is tasked by Brigadier Wee of Singapore's Security and Intelligence Divison to accompany Angel Fei, a gymnast who has recently defected from China, to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Could this be Singapore's first ever Gold medal? Pursuing glamorous Southern Belle, Regina Crisp, to the Big Apple, the Reliable Man comes face to face with the Buaya Cartel, now led by the deadly femme fatale Lavender Daai.

Ex-Hong Kong Police Inspector Scrimple has got himself a cushy number. He is running an MI5 safe house along with his girlfriend, the luscious Filipina Esmeralda. All he has to do is make sure the sheets are clean, the coffee is hot and the sandwiches are on time. What could possibly go wrong? Guo Shu Ping is the billionaire owner of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world specialising in generic drugs. He has a weakness for tall, skinny Shanghainese models. When he meets Jing Jing at his son's exclusive Berkshire boarding school he thinks all of his birthdays have come at ...

THIS IS A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED INDIVIDUALLY. Filling in some of the gaps between the full-length novels, this collection of short stories starts in 1987 when Bill Jedburgh is still in the Royal Hong Kong Police and first meets some of the key characters that appear later in the books. The final story is set in 2009 when Jedburgh gets help from an unexpected ally freeing a Danish diplomat who has been arrested in Shenzhen. Along the way we find The Reliable Man tasked to kill the Mayor of Davao (unsuccessfully, since he’s now the President of the Philippines) ...

THIS IS A SHORT STORY It's 2004 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly with the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, is visiting the island of Bohol to assassinate a prominent politician who is coming to visit. But then he is offered a Trifecta, three jobs all rolled into one. Will he be able to pull it off or will the Reliable Man's reputation be tarnished?

Kat Pedder of MI5 is sent to Cambridge to investigate the violent deaths of several Hong Kong students with links to the democracy movement. Could it be the work of a mysterious Chinese military intelligence hit squad? Former Hong Kong Police Inspector Scrimple has changed his name, lost weight, grown a beard and is working as a diving instructor in Thailand until he is confronted with an old secret that goes back to his days as a young copper. He decides to return to England to find out more. As more students die, Kat Pedder and Scrimple meet again. And this time they will both need the ...

THIS IS A SHORT STORY Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun for hire is chilling out in Phuket shortly before Christmas, enjoying the nightlife and teaching an Open Water Scuba Diving Course. He strikes up a friendship with a charming codger called Clarence who makes him an unusual proposition. The Reliable Man is inclined to help but when some dodgy Russian gangsters turn up and start muddying the waters his blood begins to boil.

Staunton has left his previous life behind and is now retired in a quiet village in Hampshire. But when his old colleague Delingworth comes calling and asks him to do one special job for him in exchange for a vital piece of information about the death of Alan's wife, it is impossible to walk away. Staunton travels to the Sultanate of Alopurah, near Indonesia, where he is to negotiate a multi-million dollar contract on behalf of his employer, a global security company. It should be a piece of cake because Alan was at boarding school with the Sultan, but there are other parties vying for the ...

Scrimple gets involved in the Hong Kong democracy protests. Back in Yorkshire, former Hong Kong Police Inspector Scrimple is at a loose end after his mother’s funeral and having recently lost his job in Thailand. A mysterious meeting results in a job offer to go back to Hong Kong and to work for a wealthy American who is financing the democracy protesters. But when Scrimple arrives in Hong Kong it is not long before he bumps into his old nemesis, the Triad boss William. Very soon Scrimple is in the middle of death and violence and he is running for cover. Will his old mates from the ...