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Two weeks of lust and love making awaited Brett Davis as he flew to Hong Kong, on leave from his role as an elite commando with his Nation's Special Forces. However, he was unaware that his woman was not the only one waiting for him. Deadly assassins were waiting in the wings, hired by a powerful Asian crime syndicate who had made a pledge to kill this bastard known as Brett Davis. Either way, he was about to enter very dangerous territory. He would either die making love to his lady, or he would succumb to an assassin's bullet.

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Publié par	Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
Date de parution	31 janvier 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781528915915
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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T he D anger C ontinues
O peration T ake D own
Leonard Pawl
Austin Macauley Publishers
2022-01-31
The Danger Continues About the Author Copyright Information © Acknowledgement Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen
About the Author

Paul Trower started his working life as an apprentice boilermaker, but eventually followed his family’s tradition and joined the Queensland Police Force. He served as a Police Officer for thirteen years before a career change took him into the world of business and a successful career in sales and management. He remained active in the corporate world until his retirement at age seventy-eight.
Using the nom de plume of Leonard Pawl, he has now written three crime fiction novels that follow the activities of a highly trained operative named Brett Davis. The Danger Continues Operation Takedown is the first of his works to be published.
Copyright Information ©
Leonard Pawl 2022
The right of Leonard Pawl to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with Section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.
Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.
ISBN 9781528913188 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781528915816 (Hardback)
ISBN 9781528915915 (ePub e-book)
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First Published 2022
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Acknowledgement
My special thanks to Robert Newman, an extended family member and someone that without whose support, this book may never have been published.
It was with his support and encouragement that this manuscript went from a labour of love to reality and into print.
Thank you for your help Bob.
Chapter One
Brett Davis enjoyed the view from the window of his flight from Sydney as it came in for a landing at Hong Kong International Airport. He’d flown to many countries of the world in the past twenty-odd years, but on most of those occasions, he had been in the body of a military aircraft that did not cater to the tourist’s appetite of wanting to take in the scenery of where they were going or where they had been. He was surprised at the density of the high-rise buildings and the truth be known, he had expected to see many more junks and other boats in and around the harbour in keeping with the impressions most infrequent visitors had of Hong Kong. The old images portrayed of its harbour with thousands of people living and working on their junks still lingered in most people’s minds if they hadn’t been to the city since the British handed the colony back to China in 1997. He liked what he could see and was impressed with the impact that coming in on the flight had on him, relishing the opportunity to behave like a tourist for a change.
It had been just over twelve months since those dreadful days on his cattle breeding property up near Tamworth that had resulted in the deaths of his partner Jenny and her daughter in a horrific highway crash. The crash had proved to be a failed attempt by the Asian Syndicate from Melbourne, to eliminate him because the hit squad believed he was the one driving the vehicle in which they died. Their deaths had been just one of the tragic events that had taken place during what the media had dubbed ‘The Tamworth Affair’. Between gang-related violence, police shootouts and contract killings arranged by mobsters, twelve persons had died in a few days of violence such as never seen before in the idyllic surroundings of the central New South Wales area. The fatalities had included two police officers shot and killed in the line of duty.
There had been another senior police officer reported MIA just as the Tamworth Affair came to a close. He had been the chief investigating officer on the case and the official line was that his disappearance was the result of him following up on a tip-off concerning the whereabouts of an international criminal. Reportedly this criminal was wanted by a number of the World’s Agencies including Interpol, Mi5 and the FBI. The police had never been able to find out what actually happened to the missing officer, but the vehicle that he had been driving was discovered some months after his disappearance, burnt out at the bottom of a gully a hundred or more kilometres away from where he had been working out of the Tamworth District police station. There had never been a body or any remains found, and no clues that would assist police in further inquiries. This officer had been a high-ranking detective and it was presumed that he had found the fugitive that he went looking for but was killed trying to capture him.
The jolt of the touchdown brought Brett back to reality and the reason that he had come to Hong Kong in the first place. He’d spent the past several months doing intense training since he had been recalled to his old operational unit of the Army Special Forces. For all intents and purposes, he was an instructor, but this entailed being a little better and a little fitter than the elite troopers he trained in preparation for clandestine missions that they would have to undertake during their tours of duty. He’d just reached his mid-forties, but had never been in better physical condition, or sharper in his reaction times. This showed up particularly well during unarmed combat or weapons handling, which suggested that he could more than hold his own in any mission if required. The next fourteen days, however, were his to enjoy with some R and R, so there would be no more thoughts of training, simulated warfare or hand to hand combat. He would be in Hong Kong at the invitation of Julie Peters, the older sister of his late partner Jenny. He had met Julie when she came to Tamworth to attend to the death of her sister. Those times were traumatic but there had been a recognition of mutual respect between them. Following on from those emotional early days, they had remained in contact and as the time moved on, became a little more interested in each other. This had developed to the point that they agreed that Brett spend his next leave doing a trip to Hong Kong. Julie was the resident manager for the regional offices of one of the international airlines and therefore able to offer numerous advantages to a tourist such as Brett Davis. The idea was too good to pass up, so here he was, arriving in China with the prospect of spending the next two weeks enjoying the scenery, the cuisine and the company of a very attractive woman.
Yung Ng was the head man of an Asian crime syndicate based in Melbourne that had been one of the major players in the Tamworth Affair last year. They had avowed revenge for the loss of a multi-million-dollar shipment of drugs which had been seized by the New South Wales Police. Then there was the disappearance of ten million dollars in cash which had been brought to the delivery point by the Sydney buyer, Frank Banner. No trace of the cash had ever been found and the Asians reasoned that it was their money because it was to be payment for the drugs they delivered. Added to these failures, the deaths of a number of their people as a consequence of failed attempts to terminate Mr Brett Davis merely added salt to the wounds. What should have been a simple and profitable delivery of drugs and the collection of a ten-million-dollar cash payment, had ended as a giant cluster fuck.
It was their belief Davis had been the main cause of the failures and therefore responsible for the massive financial losses they had suffered in those Tamworth dealings. They had taken out Frances Chappelle, the Sydney based financier that had dragged them deeper into the mess of that affair, but Davis had evaded their attempts to eliminate him. Their creed didn’t allow for failure and to permit Davis to walk free was not an option. He would pay the ultimate price for his interference but they would have to await their chance and for the right time and place. He had proven a difficult target in his home territory because of what they found out to be close ties with the Australian military, but the Syndicate was prepared to wait. There would be an occasion sometime in the future, when he left Australia to visit some other country and he would leave the protection of his Special Forces connections behind. That would be the time for the syndicate to avenge their failure and honour their creed. Meanwhile, they would keep tabs on Mr Davis and be ready to strike when the opportunity presented itself.
Organised crime throughout the world, have tentacles that reach into all aspects of society, with corruption a way of life in many countries. Whether it be a cop turning a blind eye to what may be happening, or a government official that can hold things up unless some money changes hands, the criminal gangs have ways of getting results that suit their purposes. The Melbourne syndicate was no exception, having contacts in many key areas that could give them information from time to time, if and when they needed it. One such item of interest came from an informant in the Australian Passport Offic