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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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It's 1987 and in ten years' time Britain will hand back the Crown Colony of Hong Kong to China. Detective-Inspector Scrimple hasn't solved a crime in years, his bosses hate him, his friends laugh at him and he hasn't had a real girlfriend since he left England to join the Royal Hong Kong Police. But all of that is about to change. When the dead body of a prominent expatriate is found in a garbage room and Scrimple is sent to investigate, his boring, mediocre life is turned upside down as he gets involved with a gorgeous nightclub hostess, incurs the wrath of a powerful Triad boss and is ...

It’s 1990 and Bill Jedburgh, still working in the VIP protection team of the Royal Hong Kong Police, has handed in his resignation and is getting ready to explore new challenges in the private sector with the wily entrepreneur Harry Bolt. On vacation in Bangkok, he is asked by a senior police officer to assist in resolving a delicate family matter which results in him uncovering a potential assassination attempt on a Thai dignitary who is visiting Hong Kong. While he adjusts to his new future as a gun for hire, Jedburgh bounces between Bangkok and Hong Kong where conflicting loyalties, ...

THIS IS A SHORT STORY It's 2006 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, is having dinner by himself in Patpong, Bangkok, when a young lady comes along and makes him an indecent proposal. Will the Reliable Man decline the invitation or will he rise to the occasion?

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.

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.

THIS IS A SHORT STORY It's 2009 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, is asked to find a young Danish man who has gone missing in China. When the Reliable Man meets one of his old contacts across the border it appears this might be more than a missing person investigation. In the end somebody will have to pay.

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.

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 SHORT STORY It's 2003 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police, is on a scuba diving holiday in Phuket, Thailand with his American buddy Ed Cleveland. After enjoying the nightlife for a few days they head out on a live-aboard to the Mergui Archipelago. But this dive trip is not going to end well.

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) ...

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?

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 ...