Death in the Kingdom (42 page)

So what to do while I awaited Sami's boys? The door was locked with a chair jammed under the handle just in case and the sign displaying D
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was hanging outside. I was unlikely to be disturbed for a week if I wanted it that way. I had a bottle of Jack Daniels and there was room service to call on. I was in some sort of limbo heaven.

I glanced at my watch. It was after two in the morning. ‘How time flies,' I muttered, thinking about my little Australian named Heather. Hopefully she would find another playmate when I didn't show later that morning.

I had the small square of laminated cardboard that I'd taken from the lining of Bernard's wallet. Victor as a password, how typically Bernard! Before I got too pissed to know what I was doing, I used my computer and modem. After ten minutes I had established another bank account, this one in the Caymans. I left some petty cash in Bernard's old account and transferred a little over ten million dollars across into my new one. It was the price of my life, so I didn't feel at all guilty taking it. I picked up my bottle and glass and went out onto the patio.

What did the future hold for me?

I had no idea but there were now options beyond throwing my hat in the ring with my friend, The Onion Man—several options in fact! One was blonde, two had dark hair and the other option was sitting half-empty on the patio table in front of me. I would explore the latter first and get to the others all in good time.

About the Author

In his fifty something years, New Zealand based Andrew Grant has lived and worked in a variety of roles around the world, including being a professional hunter, merchant seaman and bodyguard. A small arms expert, competitive pistol shooter and keen photographer, he is a frequent visitor to Asia, regarding Thailand as his second home. If you enjoyed this book, read the second book in the Daniel Swann series: Singapore Sling Shot.

Singapore Sling Shot

Another Daniel Swann thriller!

Former British agent Daniel Swann is living in semi-retirement in Hong Kong when he receives a call for help from his old friend Thai drug lord Sami Somsak. Sami's stepbrother and his family have been murdered, and Sami's brainchild, the $6-billion Intella Island project, Singapore's largest offshore construction, is in jeopardy. When Swann attempts to retrieve vital evidence hidden in Fort Siloso, a bloody gun battle erupts on Sentosa island, and staid, quiet Singapore becomes a raging battlefield.

Chinese Triads, a ruthless Colombian drug cartel and a shipping container holding $2 billion dollars converge on Singapore as Swann and his associates battle to save the Intella Island project and seek their revenge on Singapore's unscrupulous Thomas Lu—the man they call The Undertaker.

Published in print by Monsoon Books in 2007

This electronic edition published in 2011 by Monsoon Books

ISBN (epub): 978-981-4358-21-7

ISBN (paperback): 978-981-05-8492-4

Copyright©Andrew Grant, 2007

Cover photograph copyright©Royalty-Free/Corbis

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