Chase James Hadley (3)

Out of the past comes a woman Clay Burden had loved and idolized. Believing she was lost to him, he has married. He finds she too has married. To him the situation presents no problem: a double divorce and the problem is solved. It doesn’t work out like that. There are many complications which include hypnotism and murder.

Set against the opulent background of Paradise City with hurricane ‘Hermes’ providing a roaring and lethal back-drop, lives up to its title.

The magic of James Hadley Chase’s story telling is your guarantee of a non-stop, compulsive read.

All are familiar with the well-known plot of the man who commits murder and then attempts to make the crime appear to be suicide.

In James Hadley Chase turns this old plot inside out and gives us a new and electrifying reverse of the coin: the man who attempts to make a suicide appear to be murder, in order to lay his hands on the victim’s insurance money.

Here is a thriller that will quicken your heart-beats. It is by far the most ingenious story that this “Master of the art of deception” has yet given us.

On a dark, lonely quai of Paris’s 4th a woman is found suffering from amnesia, with the initials of the top Chinese atomic scientist tattooed on her buttock.

This is the opening gambit of the second Mark Girland espionage adventure, a sequel to that surges forward with that compelling readability that has long established James Hadley Chase as the thriller maestro of the generation.