: Trevor Trigg
: Lepers on an Ocean of Lies Who are the royal targets? (The 3rd in the Peter Piper crime thriller series)
: Vivid Publishing
: 9781922565198
: 1
: CHF 4.20
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: Krimis, Thriller, Spionage
: English
: 228
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: ePUB
The action-at-full-throttle follow-on from 'LAPEL' and 'Looming August Eighth' crime thrillers. 1990. Peter Piper and police superintendent Robbie Burns are in the thick of it. A member of a royal family has been brutally murdered and the threat is that royals will be targeted until deals are done and vast sums of money are freed from Swiss accounts. Royal murders may be subterfuge and levers for a tyrant to go to war to subjugate a whole population and gain control of a major part of world energy - and its price. The counter, to a tyrant's subterfuge and lies, is to create an 'ocean of lies' that will buy the time to protect royal targets, rescue innocents, kill or capture murderers, and close down the sea-going conduit for assassins and terrorists. Peter and Rob are in the crosshairs, but so is a ship that they have pirated to sail on their ocean of lies. Success or deadly failure can only be determined by a desperate run to sea from enemy forces in the Persian Gulf. Ramifications are global. British focus is intense. MI6 has an agenda that Piper and Burns must overturn in order break through. A white-knuckle ride through firefights and naval engagement; it can turn on a penny.

3 – There goes the fish& chips shop.

‘So, married life agrees with you. You’re both positively beaming,’ Attorney-General, Frank Papadopoulos, observed, as he topped up Peter and Rob’s coffees. The three of them sat in the A-G’s airy office, Parliament House, Canberra. ‘My wife says it’s been too many weeks since we had dinner together, so my guess is she’ll be talking to Servy and Robyn about fixing that.’

‘If it’s a barbeque,’ Rob wagged a finger, ‘I’m the chef. You’re a gun lawyer but crap with a steak, mate.’

‘Ha!’ Frank grinned, ‘At question time in this place, the Opposition tries to rip strips off me, and I’ve also got to cop it from a mate.’

They shared a couple of chuckles and BBQ stories, but each knew that serious things needed to be discussed and decided.

‘Tony and Ben will be here shortly but I thought I’d do a little scene setting first.’ Papadopoulos said, as he settled deeper into his chair and ran fingers through his thinning dark hair as if rehearsing something in his mind. ‘There has been absolutely no need to interfere with your newly wedded bliss and much deserved break after those months in the limelight. As far as I’m concerned, you can be on a break for as long as you like. Take a cruise. Write a book or two. Whatever. But I’m guessing that you probably want to do someth