I should also like to thank a number of people who read through drafts at various stages of development, everyone of them helping in the quest for sneaky typos, contextual slip-ups and readability. Thank you, Anne and Sanford Foster, Luci de Nordwall Cornish, Zoe O’Reilly, Jill Pemberton and Simon O’Reilly (still the fastest copy editor in the East) for your invaluable help, advice and criticism, together with your expert editing and proofreading.
Finally, I should like to thank various readers for their positive feedback, encouragement and reviews for my earlier books. I hope that you enjoyed this third instalment in the lives of Jennifer Cotton and Henry Silk — in fact it will soon transform into the fourth instalment since a prequel to the series, The Whistling Man, will follow hot on the heels of this tale.
About the Author
After more than thirty years as a forensic scientist, most of which were spent in Hong Kong, David Clarke retired to the more bucolic pastures of Tuscany where, after dabbling in art restoration, he took up full-time novel writing. Drawing on his experiences in the scientific investigation of numerous serious crimes, he has written the Rare Traits Trilogy, the Cotton & Silk Thriller series and An Imperfect Revenge.
He now spends his time mainly in Tuscany, Italy and Phuket, Thailand.
The Assassin’s Dog is David’s seventh novel.
Also by David George Clarke
The Rare Traits Trilogy
Rare Traits
Delusional Traits
Murderous Traits
The Cotton and Silk Thrillers
Irrefutable Evidence
Remorseless
An Imperfect Revenge
Non-Fiction
Hong Kong Under The Microscope
A History of the Hong Kong Government Laboratory 1879–2004
A Final Word
Do you have kids or grandchildren, a favourite godson or goddaughter, a class of kids you teach or support in some way? My wife Gail is an author and illustrator who has published nine beautifully illustrated children’s books. They are written in rhyme that children from 3–9 years just love reading or having read to them.
Patrick’s Birthday Message
Searching for Skye — An Arctic Tern Adventure
Cosmos the Curious Whale
The Chameleon Who Couldn’t Change Colour
Ndotto — An Elephant Rescue Story
Mischief at the Waterhole
Sharks Our Ocean Guardians (The Shark Guardian Series Book One)
Jed’s Big Adventure (The Shark Guardian Series Book Two)
You can find more details at Gail’s website
www.gailclarkeauthor.com
Contents
THE ASSASSIN’S DOG
Prologue
Part I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Part II
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Part III
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Part IV
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Part V
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Part VI
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Part VII
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by David George Clarke
A Final Word