The Washermen (The Commander Allan Dice Books Book 2)
Book Details
Author(s)Peter Hill
PublisherPeter Hill
ISBN / ASINB00R6S29B2
ISBN-13978B00R6S29B9
MarketplaceCanada 🇨🇦
Description
The Washermen. (A Commander Allan Dice Spy Thriller)
‘Peter Hill has done it again—a fast moving, action-packed thriller involving the secret service, the police, and underworld criminals.’
Coventry Evening Standard
It is 1979 and Britain has lived with the curse of the sinister Chinese Triads for too long. Only a combined operation by the CIA and SIS can eliminate their deadly cells of activity. But when the chosen hatchet men arrive from Hong Kong, and the list of gruesome Soho murders grows, the powers that be at Scotland Yard and in the Secret Service clash head-on. And Commander Allan Dice, one of the most trusted officers in the Police force, finds himself waist-deep in a dangerous, corrupt and embittered world of rivalry, espionage and violence.
For many reasons the SIS want to penetrate the highly effective Chinese Secret Service in Britain. Repeated failures to do so have now goaded British intelligence into joining with the CIA in a new and extremely questionable undertaking known as Operation Redlight, directed by the unscrupulous Roger Firth.
After the covert arrival from Hong Kong of the three Washermen to disrupt the Chinese Triad cell in London, there is a sudden outbreak of murders. Redlight is thus brought into fierce conflict with Scotland Yard, and it is Commander Allan Dice who has to try to halt the whole deadly scheme instigated by Firth.
Despite opposition Dice’s instincts and experience make him realize that the enemy lurks not only in Soho’s narrow streets, in decaying dockside warehouses and on the Sussex downs, but also within his own sphere of control.
In this brilliant story of detective and intelligence officers at loggerheads, Peter Hill has created a dynamic and compassionate thriller, set against the sinister world of London’s Chinatown. And again Allan Dice, whose personality played so dominant a part in The Fanatics, quietly but powerfully asserts his strange integrity.
Press comments on The Washermen
‘Zippy, intricate Chinese puzzle laid out with high laconic skill…very strong on sinister rituals, seamy metropolitan locations and gut-churning beastliness.’
‘Intricate and skilful… Hill is more than a find’
The Sunday Times
‘Very clever, very nasty.’
Marghanita Laski, The Listener
Peter Hill is an author and playwright who regularly wrote for many top-rated British television series including, ‘Special Branch’, ‘Z Cars’, ‘Callan’, ‘The Bill’, ‘The Sweeney’, ‘Crown Court’, ‘Public Eye’, and ‘New Scotland Yard’.
As a novelist he wrote the highly successful Staunton and Wyndsor Series of police detective novels set in various locations in Britain. They are: The Hunters, The Liars, The Enthusiast and The Savages.
Each of these is a stand-alone novel, with the same two major protagonists.
They are part of a series, not an ongoing serial, so could be read in any order.
They were originally published worldwide by major publishing houses in the 1970s and are now available as eBooks.
After a successful career in television drama in Britain and New Zealand, where he now lives, Peter has recently returned to novel writing in a new genre and Killing Tomorrow, the first of a new series of near and far-future thrillers, Evolution’s Path, is also available as a Kindle eBook. The second, The Ladies Game, has just been published and work has started on the third.
Press comments on the author’s Staunton and Wyndsor series
‘A really first-class who-dunnit’
Essex Chronicle
‘Exceptionally well told, with satisfying outcome.’
Columbus Sunday Dispatch
‘This is a taut, handsome job, beautifully written, full of real characters and acute observations.’
The New York Times
‘To follow…the brilliantly inspired tracking of Hill’s two detectives is a joy apart from the brainteasing please of accepting the author’s challenge to identify the murderer.’
London Evening News
‘A really good thriller writer’
The Daily Telegraph
‘Peter Hill has done it again—a fast moving, action-packed thriller involving the secret service, the police, and underworld criminals.’
Coventry Evening Standard
It is 1979 and Britain has lived with the curse of the sinister Chinese Triads for too long. Only a combined operation by the CIA and SIS can eliminate their deadly cells of activity. But when the chosen hatchet men arrive from Hong Kong, and the list of gruesome Soho murders grows, the powers that be at Scotland Yard and in the Secret Service clash head-on. And Commander Allan Dice, one of the most trusted officers in the Police force, finds himself waist-deep in a dangerous, corrupt and embittered world of rivalry, espionage and violence.
For many reasons the SIS want to penetrate the highly effective Chinese Secret Service in Britain. Repeated failures to do so have now goaded British intelligence into joining with the CIA in a new and extremely questionable undertaking known as Operation Redlight, directed by the unscrupulous Roger Firth.
After the covert arrival from Hong Kong of the three Washermen to disrupt the Chinese Triad cell in London, there is a sudden outbreak of murders. Redlight is thus brought into fierce conflict with Scotland Yard, and it is Commander Allan Dice who has to try to halt the whole deadly scheme instigated by Firth.
Despite opposition Dice’s instincts and experience make him realize that the enemy lurks not only in Soho’s narrow streets, in decaying dockside warehouses and on the Sussex downs, but also within his own sphere of control.
In this brilliant story of detective and intelligence officers at loggerheads, Peter Hill has created a dynamic and compassionate thriller, set against the sinister world of London’s Chinatown. And again Allan Dice, whose personality played so dominant a part in The Fanatics, quietly but powerfully asserts his strange integrity.
Press comments on The Washermen
‘Zippy, intricate Chinese puzzle laid out with high laconic skill…very strong on sinister rituals, seamy metropolitan locations and gut-churning beastliness.’
‘Intricate and skilful… Hill is more than a find’
The Sunday Times
‘Very clever, very nasty.’
Marghanita Laski, The Listener
Peter Hill is an author and playwright who regularly wrote for many top-rated British television series including, ‘Special Branch’, ‘Z Cars’, ‘Callan’, ‘The Bill’, ‘The Sweeney’, ‘Crown Court’, ‘Public Eye’, and ‘New Scotland Yard’.
As a novelist he wrote the highly successful Staunton and Wyndsor Series of police detective novels set in various locations in Britain. They are: The Hunters, The Liars, The Enthusiast and The Savages.
Each of these is a stand-alone novel, with the same two major protagonists.
They are part of a series, not an ongoing serial, so could be read in any order.
They were originally published worldwide by major publishing houses in the 1970s and are now available as eBooks.
After a successful career in television drama in Britain and New Zealand, where he now lives, Peter has recently returned to novel writing in a new genre and Killing Tomorrow, the first of a new series of near and far-future thrillers, Evolution’s Path, is also available as a Kindle eBook. The second, The Ladies Game, has just been published and work has started on the third.
Press comments on the author’s Staunton and Wyndsor series
‘A really first-class who-dunnit’
Essex Chronicle
‘Exceptionally well told, with satisfying outcome.’
Columbus Sunday Dispatch
‘This is a taut, handsome job, beautifully written, full of real characters and acute observations.’
The New York Times
‘To follow…the brilliantly inspired tracking of Hill’s two detectives is a joy apart from the brainteasing please of accepting the author’s challenge to identify the murderer.’
London Evening News
‘A really good thriller writer’
The Daily Telegraph
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