Lethal Orders Author:James Pattinson Critic's Choice (c) 1982 — Publication date 1986 — Han Kohler was having an easy time of it in Bonn. The woman was so much in love with him that she would do anything he asked rather than lose him. And it was not really a great deal he asked of her in return for his attentions. For a few years everything was fine, and would have continued to be f... more »ine if it had not been for that conscience which started troubling her. Then it all began to go wrong, and he had orders to kill. It was not really his line: he had no taste for it, and he said so. But he was told that he had to do it, and he did not dare to disobey.
The job was not done well; in fact it was done very badly; but was that his fault? Kohler felt he had a right to be aggrieved: he had lost a comfortable, easy way of life and become a hunted man...
And then Sam Grant of the Peking Inquiry Agency became inadvertently involved.« less