# Acts of Violence

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- Book: [Acts of Violence](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-craig-1st-viscount-craigavon/acts-of-violence) ([Acts of Violence.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-craig-1st-viscount-craigavon/acts-of-violence.md))
- Authors: [James Craig](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-craig-1st-viscount-craigavon)
- Publisher: constable
- ISBN: 978-14-7211-512-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Awakening the sleeping dragon... Smooth expat Michael Nicholson is a fixer, getting on by doing favours for the rich and powerful in booming China. When he makes the mistake of getting too close to one of his clients, the wife of a leading Communist Party official, the ageing Lothario fears for his life as a vengeful husband decides to put his house in order. So when a domestic dispute from the other side of the world leads to a shoot-out in a luxury penthouse apartment in Chelsea, an ex-cop called Marvin Taylor is one of the casualties. Inspector John Carlyle is little more than a casual onlooker until Taylor's widow turns up, looking for answers. The inspector is drawn into the morass of dealing and double-dealing, much to the dismay of his boss, Carole Simpson, who wants him to focus on Barbara Hutton, a Bloomsbury housewife who may - or may not - be a former German terrorist wanted for a forty-year-old murder... 'A cracking read' BBC Radio 4 'Fast paced and very easy to get quickly lost in' Lovereading. com