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MacLean, Alistair - Puppet on a Chain

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ALISTAIR MACLEAN

Puppet on a Chain

FONTANA / Collins

PUPPET ON A CHAIN

Paul Sherman of Interpol's Narcotics Bureau lands at Schiphol Airport. As far as he is aware no one but Jimmy Duclos knows of his arrival in Amsterdam. Duclos is there to meet himЧand four men are there to meet Duclos. Sherman has to recognize that the gang of heroin smugglers he was out to smash know his movements as well as he does.

Backed by Amsterdam's police, Sherman tries to outwit the genius behind the drug ring, a master-puppeteer who knows how to manipulate the underworld so that his own tracks are obliterated at every step.

The action moves from the back streets of Amsterdam to a barge on the Zuider Zee, from an island whose inhabitants specialize in making costumed puppets, to the crypt of a missionary sect's church. Not until the very last minute is the master-puppeteer revealed Ч- and by then he is in possession of a puppet of such value and beauty that it taxes all Sherman's ingenuity and courage to prevent this-one, too, from swinging on a grisly chain . . .


Available in Fontana by the same author

The Guns of Navarone
Force 10 From Navarone
South by Java Head
The Last Frontier
Night Without End
Fear is the Key
The Golden Rendezvous
Ice Station Zebra.
When Eight Bells Toll
Where Eagles Dare
H.M.S. Ulysses
The Dark Crusader
The Satan Bug

First published by Wm. Collins 1969 First issued in Fontana Books 1971 Second Impression August 1971

TO FRED AND INA

CONDITIONS OF SALE

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

й Alistair MacLean 1969

Printed in Great Britain

Collins Clear-Type Press: London and Glasgow

CHAPTER ONE