COOL MILLENNIUM BOOKS
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Copyright © James Ward 2012
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This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and events are the product of the author’s imagination, or used fictitiously. All resemblance to actual events, places, events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
First published 2012
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Cover picture taken by the author on 5 April 2014: shows the view from Trafalgar Square towards Big Ben.
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To my wife
Other books in the same series:
The original Tales of MI7
Our Woman in Jamaica
The Kramski Case
The Girl from Kandahar
The Vengeance of San Gennaro
The John Mordred books
The Eastern Ukraine Question
The Social Magus
Encounter With ISIS
World War O
The New Europeans
Libya Story
Little War in London
The Square Mile Murder
The Ultimate Londoner
Death in a Half Foreign Country
The BBC Hunters
The Seductive Scent of Empire
Humankind 2.0
Ruby Parker’s Last Orders
Chapters
Chapter 1: Them Ol’ Paparazzi Blues
Chapter 4: Marcie Brown, Investigator
Chapter 6: How to Prove that x2(MI5 + MI6 - √2y) = MI7
Chapter 9: More Ace Stuff About Jilly
Chapter 10: The Disconcerting Photomatic
Chapter 12: A Turn for the Worse
Chapter 13: Nichole Moore, Superstar
Chapter 14: The Return of Nicholas Fleming
Chapter 17: No Blancmange in Lebanon
Chapter 18: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Marciella Hartley-Brown, ASBO?
Chapter 19: Inside a Big Old House
Chapter 20: Serve the Lord With Gladness
Chapter 21: Securitavan Shenanigans
Chapter 23: The Other Side of Nichole Moore
Chapter 24: The Obligatory Car Chase & Sundry Other Business
Chapter 25: Fleming at Thames House
Chapter 26: Bedford then Kafka
Chapter 28: Call for the Cavalry
Note on Language
THIS NOVEL WAS PRODUCED in the UK and uses British-English language conventions (‘authorise’ instead of ‘authorize’, ‘The government are’ instead of ‘the government is’, etc.)