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The Avenging Buddha

Steve Bailey

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The Avenging Buddha

Steve Bailey

Nick Price's wife died in an ill-conceived heist. Years later, his old gang fall victim to a vengeful killer. Someone is back from the dead.

Nick Price lost his wife as he flew out of Tibet with treasures looted from the Dali Lama’s palace. Eighteen years later, burdened by guilt and bound by conspiracy, he watches dispassionately as a killer eliminates his old gang.

During a serial murder investigation, DCI Jack Magee finds an old photograph of Nick and his old friends celebrating in a Bangkok bar. Each murder victim is linked to the photograph, and the story behind the celebration becomes crucial. Yet Magee is thwarted by Nick’s unwillingness to confront his past.

Only when Nick is kidnapped, flown up to ten thousand feet in a horribly familiar old airplane and forced to re-enact the tragic events that led to his wife’s death, is he willing to consider there is only one possible solution to the killer’s identity. Not that it makes sense, since he witnessed the man die eighteen years ago.

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No Tears for the Fallen

Steve Bailey

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No Tears for the Fallen

Steve Bailey

At the moment a heist went tragically wrong, Nick Price's gang made a betrayal. Out of wrath, an evil was born. Its name; Khun Sa.

One sunny afternoon, Nick Price took a stroll through Lumpini Park in Bangkok with his family and friends. At some stage, a joke was cracked, he laughed and placed a hand, intimately, on a young man’s shoulder. The event was unremarkable, except that twenty years later a witness testifies that the young man had been Khun Sa, the legendary drug lord from the Golden Triangle.

Set against the backdrop of civil unrest in Bangkok in May 1992, DCI Jack Magee visits Thailand to explore Nick Price’s murky past in the hope of identifying Khun Sa, unaware that he has been set up by the intelligence services like a goat to catch a tiger.

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The Tibetan Heist

Steve Bailey

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The Tibetan Heist

Steve Bailey

Nick Price was young, reckless, on the lam in Bangkok, and desperate. He thought a raid on Tibet would be easy. Tragically, he was wrong.

Amidst the chaos of the Tibetan Uprising in March 1959, monks loyal to their God-King fought to keep treasured artefacts from the clutches of invading Chinese soldiers. Four horse-drawn carts full of gold and precious jewels left Lhasa in the wake of the fleeing Dalai Lama. Three carts were captured by pursuing soldiers. The fourth cart escaped, but appeared to vanish off the face of the earth.

The legend of The Fourth Cart became a well-known tale circulating the bars of Patpong in Bangkok. One man even claimed to be the sole surviving witness to its fate, and would show listeners an enormous ruby which he claimed to be part of the treasures still lying buried in Tibet.

One listener found the allure of buried treasure too strong to resist.

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