The Eros Affair
Philip McCutchan
An anonymous call from a coin-box results in the finding of a long-buried skeleton... along with a four-letter code.
Detective
Chief Superintendent Simon Shard flies to the North to investigate the
finding and the code. The Security Service are more interested than
normal following the tip-off and the code used.
Despite barking
orders down the phone line, Hedge makes his way to the annual dinner of
the Royal Agricultural Charities Institution at the Eros Hotel, where
the Commissioner will be.
Home for dinner for once, Shard
receives a phone call that sends his investigation into chaos. The Eros
Hotel has been hijacked, with Hedge, his wife and the Commissioner
inside. With gunmen holding people hostage inside the Psyche’s suite, a
banqueting suite.
The hostages include a number of VIP guests,
including minor government ministers and trade union leaders. But Hedge
is their main concern - the shadowy screen between the Foreign Office's
Head of Security and the rest of the world, the bland, egregious thorn
in Shard's flesh who happens to be his departmental boss.
As the
gunmen’s demands emerge, so does the connection with the un-earthed
skeleton. Hedge being held hostage was no coincidence. He becomes the
bargaining power for the hijackers...
And so Shard had little
choice but to make his way to East Berlin to try to extricate Her
Majesty's Security Service from a particularly tricky situation.
Detective
Chief Superintendent Simon Shard flies to the North to investigate the
finding and the code. The Security Service are more interested than
normal following the tip-off and the code used.
Despite barking
orders down the phone line, Hedge makes his way to the annual dinner of
the Royal Agricultural Charities Institution at the Eros Hotel, where
the Commissioner will be.
Home for dinner for once, Shard
receives a phone call that sends his investigation into chaos. The Eros
Hotel has been hijacked, with Hedge, his wife and the Commissioner
inside. With gunmen holding people hostage inside the Psyche’s suite, a
banqueting suite.
The hostages include a number of VIP guests,
including minor government ministers and trade union leaders. But Hedge
is their main concern - the shadowy screen between the Foreign Office's
Head of Security and the rest of the world, the bland, egregious thorn
in Shard's flesh who happens to be his departmental boss.
As the
gunmen’s demands emerge, so does the connection with the un-earthed
skeleton. Hedge being held hostage was no coincidence. He becomes the
bargaining power for the hijackers...
And so Shard had little
choice but to make his way to East Berlin to try to extricate Her
Majesty's Security Service from a particularly tricky situation.
Категорії:
Рік:
1977
Видавництво:
Chivers North America
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
302
ISBN 10:
1850570604
ISBN 13:
9781850570608
Серії:
Simon Shard
Файл:
PDF, 16.57 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1977
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