British Library Thriller Classics
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A car hurtles down the driveway of a luxury villa in Switzerland. The driver is a young woman, Lucia Bernardi. Inside the house, police find the body of her lover on the bedroom floor. The dead man - Ahmed Fathir Arbil - was an Iraqi refugee, who has been tortured and killed. Lucia vanishes into hiding in the South of France.Piet Maas, a journalist for the World Reporter, sets out on Lucia's trail, hoping for a scoop. Soon he must decide whether to publish his story - which will lead to Lucia's exposure and almost certain death - or join her in executing a perilous scheme that could net them both a fortune.
PAN CLASSIC CRIME - WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT GODDARDIt all started because of Girija Krishnan's lifelong dream - to operate his own bus company. When he discovered an abandoned terrorist arms chache, all he needed to turn his dream into reality were partners with the right underworld connections. The Tan brothers were tailor-made for the job of disposing profitably of the illegal shipment. But they too needed an accomplice - a respectably ignorant front man. And the innocent American Greg Nilsen found his holiday turning into a one-way ticket to the dangerous world of gun-running.