China Wife by Hedley Harrison

Author:Hedley Harrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing

23

After his weekend with Susie, David was exhausted, amazed and fascinated all at the same time.

He knew why he was exhausted! His amazement and fascination represented a jumble of feelings that, in a rare fit of self-analysis, he put down to his growing attraction to Susie and to his respect for her intellectual capabilities as well as her physical ones.

‘So I’ve got a free trip to Australia,’ he remarked to his shaving mirror. ‘She really means to get stuck into this high-class women trafficking thing then.’

Unfamiliar with the hidden ways of Whitehall, David nonetheless assumed that Susie must have had tacit approval from a higher level for what she was doing – not that there was much officialdom above her.

His preliminary report was stored on his laptop and safely backed up. He had hurriedly dumped his brain on to his computer after Susie had left and while he could still recall the details in sufficient clarity of their disorganised conversations.

Jesus, he had thought as he was doing it, I doubt if I could shag and prepare an inter-departmental brief at the same time!

Of course, Susie couldn’t either, but it was her chameleon-like ability to switch from lovemaking to the Chinese role in people trafficking, without missing a beat, that so attracted David.

Interesting they’ve got an insider in the Chinese game in Melbourne.

Susie had been careful to avoid saying anything that might indicate both who ‘they’ were and how they got their nameless insider into place. But her bed companion knew enough to make some educated guesses.

Our Mr Kim has fingers in many pies, David thought, as I interpret what Susie wasn’t telling me. Somehow the Aussies, or she, have got some sort of agent hooked on to him.

Shit, that sounds like a guarantee of a short life!

Although Susie had no idea that Linda Shen had taken over the link role to the Chinese gangs in Britain involved in illegal labour trafficking, her instinct that Mr Kim was key to the women trafficking was entirely correct.

‘Follow Mr Kim. That’s what she seemed to be saying,’ David confided to his kitchen at large as he conjured up his breakfast.

But he had another trip to Lincolnshire first as his police contact there had some information that would fill in the final gaps in his report.

Train travel in the UK was something of a mixed feast, and East Anglia and Lincolnshire weren’t always in the premier league when it came to consistent performance. Based on his experience in obscure places in Africa and Pakistan, David had come to hate trains.

The first thing that David noticed was the cosmopolitan mix of people who were travelling. And when he noticed that he had seemed to have attracted the interest of a group of Chinese youths, he was beginning to think that it was because he was about the only white Caucasian within their vision.

He was wrong. He hadn’t seen the frantic surge of activity at the London station before departure or been aware of the barrage

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