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BOOK 1
THIS BOOK WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE ‘THE RELIABLE MAN’
When Bill Jedburgh, a former Royal Hong Kong Police Inspector travels to Pattaya in Thailand, it’s not just to lie on the beach, drink beer and party with the local bar-girls. He’s been hired to kill the head of the German Mafia who control the night clubs, the drug dealing and the prostitution in town.
But his plans start going adrift when he is blackmailed by a Hong Kong Triad boss into doing another job, teaming him up with the gorgeous Simone de Marelle.
Then a Thai gangster general turns up knowing more about what is going on than he should.
And finally the mysterious businessman Harry Bolt arrives in Pattaya with his posse of gorgeous concubines, the Four Seasons.
For Bill, who has a reputation to maintain as The Reliable Man, this looks like one job that may go horribly wrong.
BOOK 2
THIS IS A REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION OF THE CLASSIC 1990s ASIAN THRILLER
Bill Jedburgh, previously an inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a professional hitman, leaves his home in Thailand to investigate the puzzling death of a friend and former colleague.
Asked by his boss, Brigadier Wee, to partner with Jane Tan, a beautiful SID Officer, he discovers treachery and deceit at the highest level.
Jedburgh finds himself criss-crossing Asia in search of the beautiful daughter of a Triad boss and a mysterious calligraphy painting that he has to keep out of the wrong hands at all costs.
Inevitably, when the music stops, the Reliable Man will have to take justice into his own hands.
BOOK 3
THIS IS A REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION OF THE CLASSIC 1990s ASIAN THRILLER
Bill Jedburgh, a former inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police, is hired by Brigadier Wee of the Singapore Intelligence Department to supervise the close protection detail of an influential Indonesian politician.
But within hours of landing in Jakarta his assignment starts going wrong: the attractive but temperamental Sabrinah Darwis keeps crossing his path and it doesn’t help when his occasional employer and close friend, the wealthy businessman Harry Bolt, asks him for help.
Then the dead bodies start piling up. Will the Reliable Man be able to live up to his reputation?
BOOK 4
It’s 1995 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police, travels to Vietnam to deliver some diamonds to a crooked English lawyer.
It should be a simple favour for a friend until someone offers him a large sum of money to kill the owner of a toy factory in Danang and things start to get complicated.
And when an old enemy turns up working for the gangster who leads the mysterious Buaya Society, Jedburgh knows that he will need luck rather than his skills as The Reliable Man to get out of this situation.
BOOK 5
Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun for hire, is tasked by Brigadier Wee of Singapore’s Security and Intelligence Division to accompany Angel Fei, a gymnast who has recently defected from China, to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Could this be Singapore’s first ever Gold medal?
Pursuing glamorous Southern Belle, Regina Crisp, to the Big Apple, the Reliable Man comes face to face with the Buaya Cartel, now led by the deadly femme fatale Lavender Daai.
BOOK 6
As the clock counts down to the handover of Hong Kong to China, Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police, and now a gun for hire, is asked by an old colleague to help Sir Bernard Li, the CEO of Foreign & Exotic Retail, to look after his wayward daughter Missie on a trip to London.
Soon Jedburgh finds himself involved in a dangerous game of cat and mouse across Southern England, involving the flamboyant MP Giles Guedella, Jedburgh’s old enemy Hu Xianping of Chinese Military Intelligence and a mysterious South African mercenary.
BOOK 7
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It’s 2007 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now working as an assassin for hire, is taking a break to go scuba diving in Puerto Galera. But first he stops off in Angeles City to catch up with a few friends and enjoy the nightlife.
When Dickie Goodyear, another ex-Hong Kong copper, comes to his hotel with a gunshot wound asking for help, Bill brings him to hospital without realising that this will involve him in a plot to overthrow the President of the Philippines.
BOOK 8
This is a festive short story
The Reliable Man is tasked by Brigadier Wee to assassinate a politician in Finland just days before Christmas.
But as soon as he lands in Helsinki, his cover is blown and the job starts going sideways.
BOOK 9
This is a short story
It’s 1999 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly with the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, has flown up to Shanghai to sort out a tricky problem involving computers.
At first it’s a bit confusing but eventually Jedburgh gets his man.
There are also four women involved but that’s the least you expect when it comes to the Reliable Man.
BOOK 10
This is a short story
It’s 2006 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, is having dinner by himself in Patpong, Bangkok, when a young lady comes along and makes him an indecent proposal.
Will the Reliable Man decline the invitation or will he rise to the occasion?
BOOK 11
This is a short story
It’s 1999 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, visits Kuala Lumpur to untangle a complication in his love life.
A chance encounter in the Hard Rock Cafe leads to an unexpected assignment and a slew of dead bodies.
BOOK 12
This is a short story
It’s 2004 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly with the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, is visiting the island of Bohol to assassinate a prominent politician who is coming to visit.
But then he is offered a Trifecta, three jobs all rolled into one. Will he be able to pull it off or will the Reliable Man’s reputation be tarnished?
BOOK 13
This is a short story
It’s 2009 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, is asked to find a young Danish man who has gone missing in China.
When the Reliable Man meets one of his old contacts across the border it appears this might be more than a missing person investigation. In the end somebody will have to pay.
BOOK 14
It’s 1994 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun-for-hire, is sent to Switzerland to persuade aging film star Roger Cromwell to appear in a film being produced in Thailand by dubious entrepreneur Harry Bolt. Arriving in the land of cuckoo clocks and private banks,
Jedburgh finds himself being asked to protect a mysterious Korean beauty and her ten year old nephew, investigate a sinister religious cult run by a former Belgian Special Forces Colonel and to recover a long-lost Vatican artefact. Soon Jedburgh is in the cross-hairs of the CIA and the bodies start piling up on two continents.
“A fast-paced, intelligent thriller that mixes fact and fiction with exotic women and a high body count. For Asian expats of a certain age, the flavours of old haunts float out of the pages.”
BOOK 15
This is a short story
It’s 1999 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, is sent to Portugal to deal with a sensitive matter ahead of the handover of Macau to China.
But who is he really working for? The Triads, some American mobsters, Singapore’s intelligence services or his old friend Harry Bolt?
BOOK 16
This is a short story
It’s 1987 and Bill Jedburgh is still an inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police recently transferred to G4, the VIP Protection Unit.
When he and his colleagues are assigned to protect a visiting dignitary from London matters very nearly go wrong and Jedburgh meets some interesting characters who will influence him later in life.
BOOK 17
It’s 2003 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police, is on a scuba diving holiday in Phuket, Thailand with his American buddy Ed Cleveland.
After enjoying the nightlife for a few days they head out on a live-aboard to the Mergui Archipelago. But this dive trip is not going to end well.
BOOK 18
This is a short story omnibus
Filling in some of the gaps between the full-length novels, this collection of short stories which were previously published individually, starts in 1987 when Bill Jedburgh is still in the Royal Hong Kong Police and first meets some of the key characters that appear later in the books.
The final story is set in 2009 when Jedburgh gets help from an unexpected ally freeing a Danish diplomat who has been arrested in Shenzhen.
Along the way we find The Reliable Man tasked to kill the Mayor of Davao (unsuccessfully, since he’s now the President of the Philippines) and avenging the death of an African-American scuba diving buddy.
For regular readers of the series who enjoy remembering the simpler more visceral days of Asia in the 1980s and 90s, this is the perfect entry point for the Reliable Man tales.
BOOK 19
This is a festive short story
It’s 2019 and Bill Jedburgh, no longer the Reliable Man but still a gun for hire, has one last assignment to complete before he can eat his Christmas dinner.
As he traverses the Swiss alps in search of his quarry, a carol forces him to remember the ghosts of past kills.
But will a partridge in a pear tree elude him?
BOOK 20
It’s 2002. The world has changed after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York.
Gun for hire and former Hong Kong policeman Bill Jedburgh returns from confronting suicide bombers in Bali to discover that his friends Harry Bolt and Theo Scrimple both need him to venture into Cambodia’s heart of darkness.
Plunged into a high stakes adventure involving casinos and counterfeit garment manufacturers Jedburgh will have to defy kidnappers, politicians, contract killers and the infamous Buaya Cartel, if he wants to escape alive from a country still recovering from the ravages of Civil War and the Khmer Rouge.
BOOK 21
This is a short story
It’s 1998 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun for hire is on his way to Hua Hin with his new toy: an Accuracy International Arctic Warfare sniper rifle.
All he wants to do is put the weapon through its paces and have a relaxing weekend with his girlfriend, but somehow he ends up in a pistol duel.
Without his trusty Glock he has to quickly get familiar with the Ruger Mark II.
BOOK 22
This is a short story
The Reliable Man is tasked with a highly political assassination in his own back yard.
He’s unsure whether to take the job but finally agrees. For this one he is planning to use the Sig Sauer SSG 3000 sniper rifle, not his usual weapon of choice but there are particular reasons why it is an effective tool.
However, as always, things don’t entirely go to plan.
BOOK 23
This is a short story
Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now a gun for hire, is tasked by Brigadier Wee of Singapore’s Security & Intelligence Division to work with a man known as the Hairy Filipino.
It should have been a simple assassination but, as often happens in life, the best laid plans of mice and spooks go oft awry.
BOOK 24
This is a festive short story
To begin with Roderick Pang was dead. Dead as a door-nail.
Bill Jedburgh meets three Ghosts and has to decide what the future might hold for him.
His sniper rifles range from the Lee Enfield Enforcer with the Parker-Hale sight, across the Heckler & Koch PSG1 with the Brugget & Thomet optics and finally he gets to use the Barrett M82 with a Leupold sight.
You might very well say: Bah, humbug!
BOOK 25
It’s 2010 and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police and now a gun for hire, is invited to act as guardian to a well-connected doctor from Thailand who wishes to further her studies in the UK.
Once his charge is safely settled in Bristol, Jedburgh takes a few days off to help an old friend recover a stash of gold from a bank vault in Labuan, the Malaysian off-shore financial centre.
What starts as a small favour to assuage Jedburgh’s boredom soon turns deadly, as other parties try to get their hands on the gold.
The Reliable Man has to contend with Albanian and Malaysian gangsters as well as operatives from the Israeli, Filipino, and Russian intelligence services who are all in pursuit of an unexpected prize. Will Christmas come early for Jedburgh, or will this mysterious treasure trove slip through his fingers?
BOOK 26
This is a festive short story
It’s Christmas 1999 and the Reliable Man has taken time off from his usual work to spend the holidays with his buddy Ed Cleveland in Los Angeles.
But before they get a chance to hit the hot nightspots there is another party going down at the airport …
BOOK 27
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It’s 2007, and Bill Jedburgh, formerly of the Royal Hong Kong Police but now working as an assassin for hire, is taking a break to go scuba diving in Puerto Galera. But first he stops off in Angeles City to catch up with a few friends and enjoy the nightlife.
When Dickie Goodyear, another ex-Hong Kong copper, comes to his hotel with a gunshot wound asking for help, Bill brings him to the hospital without realizing that this will involve him in a plot to overthrow the president of the Philippines.