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I am Gold

Bill James

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A street shooting leaves a mother and child dead on the school run. But was this a random attack Unlikely, when it transpires that the victims were the wife and son of well-known drug baron Mansel Shale.

Having committed this atrocity, the gunman flees to a nearby shop where a hostage situation quickly develops. Detective Chief Inspector Harpur and Assistant Chief Constable Iles are brought in to oversee the siege - which ends in sudden tragedy.

But as subsequent events unfold, it appears that the gunman wasn't tracking Shale after all, but his wife . . .

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Bill James

Bill James

Bill James (1929-) is the author of numerous thrillers and crime novels as well as a critical work on Anthony Powell. In 2006 he was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger award for the year's best crime novel for Wolves of Memory. His work is much loved and critically acclaimed; the Sunday Telegraph describes him as 'bruisingly good' and The Times as 'subtle and riveting to the last page'. He lives in his native South Wales.

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