Chinese Ransom

When Henry Dobell, MI6 Head of Station in Bangkok, is kidnapped, Ken Lawson, an agent of WRU - World Research Unit, a shady subsidiary of MI6 - is brought out of retirement to investigate the kidnapping. Lawson's investigation becomes increasingly complex and tangled by Russian interference, especially when he discovers that a senior Chinese diplomat may wantto defect to the West. The mission takes Lawson from his base in Mexico to Bangkok, London, Paris and finally to Venezuela. In this original, action-packed thriller - mainly written in the first person from Lawson's point of view, which adds to its sense of immediacy - nothing is what it seems, no-one is who they say they are, and the ransom to be paid may just be too high a price.