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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.

THIS BOOK WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE 'THE RELIABLE MAN' When Bill Jedburgh, a former Royal Hong Kong Police Inspector travels to Pattaya in Thailand, it’s not just to lie on the beach, drink beer and party with the local bar-girls. He’s been hired to kill the head of the German Mafia who control the night clubs, the drug dealing and the prostitution in town. But his plans start going adrift when he is blackmailed by a Hong Kong Triad boss into doing another job, teaming him up with the gorgeous Simone de Marelle. Then a Thai gangster general turns up knowing more about ...

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 ...

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?

Bill Jedburgh, previously an inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a professional hitman, leaves his home in Thailand to investigate the puzzling death of a friend and former colleague. Asked by his boss Brigadier Wee to partner with Jane Tan, a beautiful SID Officer, he discovers treachery and deceit at the highest level. Jedburgh finds himself criss-crossing Asia in search of the beautiful daughter of a Triad boss and a mysterious calligraphy painting that he has to keep out of the wrong hands at all costs. Inevitably, when the music stops, the Reliable Man will have to take ...

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.

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 ...

It's 1999 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, is sent to Portugal to deal with a sensitive matter ahead of the handover of Macau to China. But who is he really working for? The Triads, some American mobsters, Singapore’s intelligence services or his old friend Harry Bolt?

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.

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 ...

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'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...

THIS IS A CHRISTMAS SHORT STORY. The Reliable Man is tasked by Brigadier Wee to assassinate a politician in Finland just days before Christmas. But as soon as he lands in Helsinki, his cover is blown and the job starts going sideways.

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) ...

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 It's 1999 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly with the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, has flown up to Shanghai to sort out a tricky problem involving computers. At first it's a bit confusing but eventually Jedburgh gets his man. There are also four women involved but that's the least you expect when it comes to the Reliable Man.

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 2007, and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now working as an assassin for hire, is taking a break to go scuba diving in Puerto Galera. But first he stops off in Angeles City to catch up with a few friends and enjoy the nightlife. When Dickie Goodyear, another ex-Hong Kong copper, comes to his hotel with a gunshot wound asking for help, Bill brings him to the hospital without realizing that this will involve him in a plot to overthrow the president of the Philippines.

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 ...