Johnny Barber is a coffee connoisseur. He is also a sharp businessman with South American connections - his lover, Katie is the wide of an extremely powerful and ruthless South American capitalist. When a machine that can detect a potentially fatal coffee fungus is stolen, Lawrence Edwards, an official from the Department of Trade and Industry, secretly recruits Barber's assistance in tracking down those responsible. Johnny's hunch that more is at stake than simple theft is chillingly realized when Edwards and his associate are found dead in suspicious circumstances. There is big money in the coffee industry and lives don't cost very much. It's a painful discovery and one that will take him into South America and the murky depths of the international business community where people play by different rules and nothing is quite as it seems...
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John Malcolm is the author of twelve previous Tim Simpson mysteries including A Deceptive Appearance and Into the Vortex, as well as a number of books on art and antiques. A former Chairman of the British Crime Writers Association, John Malcolm lives in Sussex with his wife.
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She stood my front doorstep, carrying an old-fashioned black leather briefcase low down at the end of her arm, like a legal weapon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lawrence Edwards, Frances Parks, Sao Paulo, South America, Carlos Guimares, Richard Keane, William Pulford, Tony Barnwell, Johnny Barber, Texteis Arochena, Victoria Street, Barry Henshaw, Senhor Johnny, Belo Horizonte, Mario Chiari, Senhor Carlos, Northumberland Avenue, Buenos Aires, Graham Robinson, Katie Gonzalez, Rio Grande, Euripides Arochena, Senhor Guimares, Marine Court, Nassim Serfaty New!
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She stood my front doorstep, carrying an old-fashioned black leather briefcase low down at the end of her arm, like a legal weapon. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lawrence Edwards, Frances Parks, Sao Paulo, South America, Carlos Guimares, Richard Keane, William Pulford, Tony Barnwell, Johnny Barber, Texteis Arochena, Victoria Street, Barry Henshaw, Senhor Johnny, Belo Horizonte, Mario Chiari, Senhor Carlos, Northumberland Avenue, Buenos Aires, Graham Robinson, Katie Gonzalez, Rio Grande, Euripides Arochena, Senhor Guimares, Marine Court, Nassim Serfaty New!
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- Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard on page 93, and page 231
- Gwen John Sculpture by John Malcolm in Front Matter
- A Deceptive Appearance by John Malcolm in Front Matter
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung on page 95
- Into the Vortex: A Tim Simpson Novel by John Malcolm in Front Matter
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