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Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, is tasked by Brigadier Wee of Singapore's Security & Intelligence Division to work with a man known as the Hairy Filipino. It should have been a simple assassination but, as often happens in life, the best laid plans of mice and spooks go oft awry.

It’s 1994 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun-for-hire, is sent to Switzerland to persuade aging film star Roger Cromwell to appear in a film being produced in Thailand by dubious entrepreneur Harry Bolt. Arriving in the land of cuckoo clocks and private banks, Jedburgh finds himself being asked to protect a mysterious Korean beauty and her ten year old nephew, investigate a sinister religious cult run by a former Belgian Special Forces Colonel and to recover a long-lost Vatican artefact. Soon Jedburgh is in the cross-hairs of the CIA and the bodies ...

THIS IS A SHORT STORY The Reliable Man is tasked to take out a corrupt banker in Frankfurt. Or so he thinks. As he starts doing his reconnaissance he comes to the notice of the German domestic intelligence agency. That is not a good thing and when bullets start flying, bodies start dropping and his anonymity comes under threat, Bill Jedburgh begins to get angry. Has someone set him up to be the fall guy?

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.

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 ...

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?

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.

It's 1995 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police, travels to Vietnam to deliver some diamonds to a crooked English lawyer. It should be a simple favour for a friend until someone offers him a large sum of money to kill the owner of a toy factory in Danang and things start to get complicated. And when an old enemy turns up working for the gangster who leads the mysterious Buaya Society, Jedburgh knows that he will need luck rather than his skills as The Reliable Man to get out of this situation.

As the clock counts down to the handover of Hong Kong to China, Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police, and now a gun for hire, is asked by an old colleague to help Sir Bernard Li, the CEO of Foreign & Exotic Retail, to look after his wayward daughter Missie on a trip to London. Soon Jedburgh finds himself involved in a dangerous game of cat and mouse across Southern England, involving the flamboyant MP Giles Guedella, Jedburgh's old enemy Hu Xianping of Chinese Military Intelligence and a mysterious South African mercenary.

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 ...

It's 2011. Bill Jedburgh is back in Hong Kong, now a world of 'one country, two systems’. When an old enemy catches up with him in Guangzhou, leaving behind a large sum of money and the location of a high profile target, Jedburgh finds himself entering a hall of mirrors in which he must choose between friends and foes in the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. Tracked by a deadly agent from the Ministry of State Security, the Reliable Man has to stay one step ahead of his pursuers in order to unravel a mysterious conspiracy which takes him into the most secretive ...

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.

It's 2002. The world has changed after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York. Gun for hire and former Hong Kong policeman Bill Jedburgh returns from confronting suicide bombers in Bali to discover that his friends Harry Bolt and Theo Scrimple both need him to venture into Cambodia's heart of darkness. Plunged into a high stakes adventure involving casinos and counterfeit garment manufacturers Jedburgh will have to defy kidnappers, politicians, contract killers and the infamous Buaya Cartel, if he wants to escape alive from a country still recovering from the ravages of Civil War and the Khmer...

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 ...

It’s 2010 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun for hire, is invited to act as guardian to a well-connected doctor from Thailand who wishes to further her studies in the UK. Once his charge is safely settled in Bristol, Jedburgh takes a few days off to help an old friend recover a stash of gold from a bank vault in Labuan, the Malaysian off-shore financial centre. What starts as a small favour to assuage Jedburgh’s boredom soon turns deadly, as other parties try to get their hands on the gold. The Reliable Man has to contend with Albanian and Malaysian ...