End-Game (1982)

by Michael Gilbert

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The London Regional Crime Squad, is trying to nail a financial empire involved with organised crime and drug smuggling. David Morgan goes undercover and is hired by a travel company to act as a tour guide around Europe, but is in fact being used as a drug mule. Eventually, he also finds himself posing as a homeless vagrant in order to track down a former employee of the financial empire who knows of the whereabouts of incriminating documents. This is a 'Snakes and Ladders' operation with twists and which ranges from London to Florence.… (more)

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Scotland Yard investigates the Blackett financial empire which includes Susan Perronet-Conde on her way up, and her ex-lover David Rhys Morgan on his way down and out. .More dirty business thriller than conventional mystery --I prefer Gilbert when he does traditional British mysteries. (

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The Final Throw

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1982

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Published in England as The Final Throw and in the USA as End-Game.

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The London Regional Crime Squad, is trying to nail a financial empire involved with organised crime and drug smuggling. David Morgan goes undercover and is hired by a travel company to act as a tour guide around Europe, but is in fact being used as a drug mule. Eventually, he also finds himself posing as a homeless vagrant in order to track down a former employee of the financial empire who knows of the whereabouts of incriminating documents. This is a 'Snakes and Ladders' operation with twists and which ranges from London to Florence.

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A story about lovers who have split up, each going his own way. He toward drink and desperation, she finds riches; but there is an undercurrent which brings them back together - an evil undercurrent.

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