JAMES HADLEY CHASE

You Have Yourself A Deal

     Mark Girland, tough, handsome and astute ex-CIA agent is no longer interested in petty official assignments. "I told you to drop dead... can't you stay dead?", was his reaction to an offer by Dorey, Divisional Director of the CIA, stationed at Paris. But this job had money - and the perks. Pretending to be the husband of a beautiful Scandinavian girl, who's lost her memory - this is the sort of job Girland likes. Until he discovers that the Chinese tattoo on his 'wife's' buttock has made her a valuable piece of Cold War merchandise. For not only are merciless Chinese agents out to eliminate her, he also has Soviet agent, Malik on his tail. And Malik was extremely ruthless and very very tough...