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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.

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...

It's 2001. The peace and order of Singapore are shattered when mercenaries try to kill former Royal Hong Kong Police inspector Bill Jedburgh and his friend Larry Lim. Brigadier Wee, head of the nation's foreign intelligence service has disappeared without a trace. Now the Reliable Man, accompanied by feisty Singapore Girl Jane Tan and a young Gurkha policeman, must locate the Brigadier in time to prevent a terrorist attack on the Lion City's most recognised institution.

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 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 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?

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 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, ...

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.

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 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 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.

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?

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 ...

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 2009 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire is basking in the Mediterranean sun in the company of a sultry young Spanish lady. When a call comes in from his old taskmaster Brigadier Wee to report to the Governor of Gibraltar, Bill has to tear himself away from his pleasures and get back into harness for a job that involves a Royal Personage who is coming to visit the Rock.