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A Posthumously published ''Creator/DonaldWestlake'' novel based off of an idea for an unused ''Franchise/JamesBond'' story. George Manville is an engineer working for industrialist Richard Curtis, a man embittered by his business losses when Hong Kong was returned to the Chinese. A group of environmental protestors led by Jerry Deirdich, Kim Baldur and Luther Rickendorf protest Curtis and Manville's new type of undersea demolition. When Kim is badly injured during the process and picked up by Curtis' yacht, Curtis seizes upon the opportunity to kill her, in order to further discredit the environmentalists who've been causing him so much problem. While trying to convince George to help him, Curtis lets slip a little boat his EvilPlan to seek revenge upon Hong Kong with George's new device. Instead, George saves Kim's life, and the two go on the run, trying to expose Curtis and stay ahead of his henchman, as the countdown to his plan approaches.
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A Posthumously published ''Creator/DonaldWestlake'' novel based off of an idea for an unused ''Franchise/JamesBond'' story. George Manville is an engineer working for industrialist Richard Curtis, a man embittered by his business losses when Hong Kong was returned to the Chinese. A group of environmental protestors led by Jerry Deirdich, Kim Baldur and Luther Rickendorf protest Curtis and Manville's new type of undersea demolition. When Kim is badly injured during the process and picked up by Curtis' yacht, Curtis seizes upon the opportunity to kill her, in order to further discredit the environmentalists who've been causing him so much problem. While trying to convince George to help him, Curtis lets slip a little boat about his EvilPlan to seek revenge upon Hong Kong with George's new device. Instead, George saves Kim's life, and the two go on the run, trying to expose Curtis and stay ahead of his henchman, as the countdown to his plan approaches.
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* TheAlcoholic: Colin Bennett. It caused him to make a mistake which killed a man and got him blackballed in the industry, just making him worse.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Mark]] undergoes a heroic version after he's caught spying on Curtis and MadeASlave on one of his construction gangs.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Mark]] undergoes a heroic version after he's caught spying on Curtis and MadeASlave on one of his construction gangs.
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* TheAlcoholic: Colin Bennett.Bennett is a heavy drinker. It caused him to make a mistake which killed a man and got him blackballed in the industry, just making him worse.
* BreakTheHaughty:[[spoiler:Mark]] [[spoiler:Mark]], who is overconfident about being able to avoid suspicion for his activities as TheMole, undergoes a heroic version after he's caught spying on Curtis and MadeASlave on one of his construction gangs.
* BreakTheHaughty:
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* AdultFear: Kim's parents initially think that she did die while protesting against Curtis due to him spreading that story.
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A Posthumously published ''Creator/DonaldWestlake'' novel based off off an idea for an unused ''Franchise/JamesBond'' story. George Manville is an engineer working for industrialist Richard Curtis, a man embittered by his business losses when Hong Kong was returned to the Chinese. A group of environmental protestors led by Jerry Deirdich, Kim Baldur and Luther Rickendorf protest Curtis and Manville's new type of undersea demolition. When Kim is badly injured during the process and picked up by Curtis' yacht, Curtis seizes upon the opportunity to kill her, in order to further discredit the environmentalists who've been causing him so much problem. While trying to convince George to help him, Curtis lets slip a little boat his EvilPlan to seek revenge upon Hong Kong with George's new device. Instead, George saves Kim's life, and the two go on the run, trying to expose Curtis and stay ahead of his henchman, as the countdown to his plan approaches.
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A Posthumously published ''Creator/DonaldWestlake'' novel based off off of an idea for an unused ''Franchise/JamesBond'' story. George Manville is an engineer working for industrialist Richard Curtis, a man embittered by his business losses when Hong Kong was returned to the Chinese. A group of environmental protestors led by Jerry Deirdich, Kim Baldur and Luther Rickendorf protest Curtis and Manville's new type of undersea demolition. When Kim is badly injured during the process and picked up by Curtis' yacht, Curtis seizes upon the opportunity to kill her, in order to further discredit the environmentalists who've been causing him so much problem. While trying to convince George to help him, Curtis lets slip a little boat his EvilPlan to seek revenge upon Hong Kong with George's new device. Instead, George saves Kim's life, and the two go on the run, trying to expose Curtis and stay ahead of his henchman, as the countdown to his plan approaches.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Richard Curtis was always a corner-cutter and bullying executive but is living off of investors money at the moment (over-selling shares in projects) and plans to steal all the gold in Hong Kong's bak and flood half the city to cover it up.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Richard Curtis was always a corner-cutter and bullying executive but is living off of investors money at the moment (over-selling shares in projects) and plans to steal all the gold in Hong Kong's bak bank and flood half the city to cover it up.
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* TheLostLenore: Curtis did love his long dead first wife and feels any other woman isn his life is a pale imitation of her.
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* TheLostLenore: Curtis did love his long dead first wife and feels any other woman isn in his life is a pale imitation of her.
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* ManlyGay: Luther.
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* ManlyGay: Luther.Luther is gay, and is a fit, brawny guy who isn't the least bit effeminate and has an ActionHero moment of sorts in the climax.
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* MyGreatestSecondChance: A twisted version, as Bennet views Curtis re-hiring him (even for criminal jobs) to be this.
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* MyGreatestSecondChance: A twisted version, as the unemployed Bennet views Curtis re-hiring him (even for criminal jobs) to be this.his chance to restart.
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* ScienceHero: George and his engineering degree, which Curtis initially is trying to use for his benefit, but then is by George used to stop him.
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* ScienceHero: George and his engineering degree, which Curtis initially is trying to use for his benefit, but then is by George used to stop him.save the day.
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* TheMole: Curtis's employee [[spoiler:Mark]] is feeding Jerry and his environmental protestors information about his projects.
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* ReverseMole: Curtis's employee [[spoiler:Mark]] is feeding Jerry and his environmental protestors information about his projects.
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* NotMeThisTime: Curtis is responsible for a great many bad things but wasn't the one personally responsible for either [[spoiler: the death of Jerry's boyfriend]] or the cover-up, something that Bennett eventually lampshades.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Curtis spends a while keeping George alive to try and recruit further.
* CoDragons: Former pot smuggler Morgan Pillager, Curtis's former construction foreman turned lackey Colin Bennett and Hong Kong racketeer Jackie Tian are all Curtis henchmen with a fair amount of promincen and authority, although not at the same time.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Curtis was always a corner-cutter and bullying executive but is living off of investors money at the moment (over-selling shares in projects) and plans to steal all the gold in Hong Kong's bak and flood half the city to cover it up.
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: The captain of Curtis;s yacht is confused and conflicted about the whole coverup and murder plot. [[spoiler:Soon he is DrivenToSuicide]].
* CoDragons: Former pot smuggler Morgan Pillager, Curtis's former construction foreman turned lackey Colin Bennett and Hong Kong racketeer Jackie Tian are all Curtis henchmen with a fair amount of promincen and authority, although not at the same time.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Curtis was always a corner-cutter and bullying executive but is living off of investors money at the moment (over-selling shares in projects) and plans to steal all the gold in Hong Kong's bak and flood half the city to cover it up.
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: The captain of Curtis;s yacht is confused and conflicted about the whole coverup and murder plot. [[spoiler:Soon he is DrivenToSuicide]].
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Curtis spends a while keeping George alive to try and recruit further.him as an active accomplice in his plan, or at least get further technical expertise out of him.
* CoDragons: Former pot smuggler Morgan Pillager, Curtis's former construction foreman turned lackey Colin Bennett and Hong Kong racketeer Jackie Tian are all Curtis henchmen with a fair amount ofpromincen prominence and authority, although not at all the same time.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Richard Curtis was always a corner-cutter and bullying executive but is living off of investors money at the moment (over-selling shares in projects) and plans to steal all the gold in Hong Kong's bak and flood half the city to cover it up.
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: The captain ofCurtis;s Curtis's yacht is confused and conflicted about the whole coverup and murder plot. [[spoiler:Soon he is DrivenToSuicide]].
* HumbleGoal: In contrast to Curtis's grand schemes, his henchman Pallifer and Bennet have more modest dreams in spite of the horrible things they do on his behalf. Pallfier wants to own his own boat, and Bennett just wants back his old job as a trusted, low-level employee for Curtis's company (at least initially).
* CoDragons: Former pot smuggler Morgan Pillager, Curtis's former construction foreman turned lackey Colin Bennett and Hong Kong racketeer Jackie Tian are all Curtis henchmen with a fair amount of
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Richard Curtis was always a corner-cutter and bullying executive but is living off of investors money at the moment (over-selling shares in projects) and plans to steal all the gold in Hong Kong's bak and flood half the city to cover it up.
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: The captain of
* HumbleGoal: In contrast to Curtis's grand schemes, his henchman Pallifer and Bennet have more modest dreams in spite of the horrible things they do on his behalf. Pallfier wants to own his own boat, and Bennett just wants back his old job as a trusted, low-level employee for Curtis's company (at least initially).
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* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. Tony Fairchild, Wai Fung and Hartin Ha (the detectives George and Kim deal with in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong respectively) are all practical, reasonable men who do their jobs and diligently investigate the claims of George, Kim and Jerry, albeit with a bit of careful skepticism at first.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. Tony Fairchild, Wai Fung and Hartin Ha (the detectives George and Kim deal with in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong respectively) are all practical, reasonable [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable]] men who do their jobs and diligently investigate the claims of George, Kim and Jerry, albeit with a bit of careful skepticism at first.
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* ReverseMole: Curtis's employee [[spoiler:Mark]] is feeding Jerry information.
* ScienceHero: George and his engineering degree, which Curtis initially is trying to use for his benefit, but then is used to stop him.
* SmugSnake: Curtis is a very self-satisfied man, and he does have a grand, ruthless plan, but the worst Bond villain, on his worst day, would still be a bigger threat than him, given his tendency for stupid decisions.
* ScienceHero: George and his engineering degree, which Curtis initially is trying to use for his benefit, but then is used to stop him.
* SmugSnake: Curtis is a very self-satisfied man, and he does have a grand, ruthless plan, but the worst Bond villain, on his worst day, would still be a bigger threat than him, given his tendency for stupid decisions.
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* ReverseMole: Curtis's employee [[spoiler:Mark]] is feeding Jerry information.
and his environmental protestors information about his projects.
* ScienceHero: George and his engineering degree, which Curtis initially is trying to use for his benefit, but then is by George used to stop him.
* SmugSnake: Richard Curtis is a very self-satisfied man, and he does have a grand, ruthlessplan, plan and vast business empire, but the worst Bond villain, on his worst day, would still be a bigger threat than him, given his tendency for stupid decisions.decisions.
* UnknownRival: Zigzagged. Curtis knows fully well that Jerry has been interfering with his businesses for some personal vendetta, but he never has any idea ''why'' Jerry is singling him out.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Subverted. Curtis tries to change and adapt his plan when things go wrong, but he's kind of bad at it. [[spoiler:It even gets him killed when his decision to personally kill the drivers of the submarine with the gold leaves him with no one to help him transfer the gold to his yacht and he drowns in the process]].
* ScienceHero: George and his engineering degree, which Curtis initially is trying to use for his benefit, but then is by George used to stop him.
* SmugSnake: Richard Curtis is a very self-satisfied man, and he does have a grand, ruthless
* UnknownRival: Zigzagged. Curtis knows fully well that Jerry has been interfering with his businesses for some personal vendetta, but he never has any idea ''why'' Jerry is singling him out.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Subverted. Curtis tries to change and adapt his plan when things go wrong, but he's kind of bad at it. [[spoiler:It even gets him killed when his decision to personally kill the drivers of the submarine with the gold leaves him with no one to help him transfer the gold to his yacht and he drowns in the process]].
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A ''Creator/DonaldWestlake'' novel based off off an idea for an unused ''Franchise/JamesBond'' story. George Manville is an engineer working for industrialist Richard Curtis, a man embittered by his business losses when Hong Kong was returned to the Chinese. A group of environmental protestors led by Jerry Deirdich, Kim Baldur and Luther Rickendorf protest Curtis and Manville's new type of undersea demolition. When Kim is badly injured during the process and picked up by Curtis' yacht, Curtis seizes upon the opportunity to kill her, in order to further discredit the environmentalists who've been causing him so much problem. While trying to convince George to help him, Curtis lets slip a little boat his EvilPlan to seek revenge upon Hong Kong with George's new device. Instead, George saves Kim's life, and the two go on the run, trying to expose Curtis and stay ahead of his henchman, as the countdown to his plan approaches.
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A Posthumously published ''Creator/DonaldWestlake'' novel based off off an idea for an unused ''Franchise/JamesBond'' story. George Manville is an engineer working for industrialist Richard Curtis, a man embittered by his business losses when Hong Kong was returned to the Chinese. A group of environmental protestors led by Jerry Deirdich, Kim Baldur and Luther Rickendorf protest Curtis and Manville's new type of undersea demolition. When Kim is badly injured during the process and picked up by Curtis' yacht, Curtis seizes upon the opportunity to kill her, in order to further discredit the environmentalists who've been causing him so much problem. While trying to convince George to help him, Curtis lets slip a little boat his EvilPlan to seek revenge upon Hong Kong with George's new device. Instead, George saves Kim's life, and the two go on the run, trying to expose Curtis and stay ahead of his henchman, as the countdown to his plan approaches.
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A ''Creator/DonaldWestlake'' novel based off off an idea for an unused ''Franchise/JamesBond'' story. George Manville is an engineer working for industrialist Richard Curtis, a man embittered by his business losses when Hong Kong was returned to the Chinese. A group of environmental protestors led by Jerry Deirdich, Kim Baldur and Luther Rickendorf protest Curtis and Manville's new type of undersea demolition. When Kim is badly injured during the process and picked up by Curtis' yacht, Curtis seizes upon the opportunity to kill her, in order to further discredit the environmentalists who've been causing him so much problem. While trying to convince George to help him, Curtis lets slip a little boat his EvilPlan to seek revenge upon Hong Kong with George's new device. Instead, George saves Kim's life, and the two go on the run, trying to expose Curtis and stay ahead of his henchman, as the countdown to his plan approaches.
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* AdultFear: Kim's parents initially think that she did die while protesting against Curtis due to him spreading that story.
* TheAlcoholic: Colin Bennett. It caused him to make a mistake which killed a man and got him blackballed in the industry, just making him worse.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Mark]] undergoes a heroic version after he's caught spying on Curtis and MadeASlave on one of his construction gangs.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Curtis spends a while keeping George alive to try and recruit further.
* CoDragons: Former pot smuggler Morgan Pillager, Curtis's former construction foreman turned lackey Colin Bennett and Hong Kong racketeer Jackie Tian are all Curtis henchmen with a fair amount of promincen and authority, although not at the same time.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Curtis was always a corner-cutter and bullying executive but is living off of investors money at the moment (over-selling shares in projects) and plans to steal all the gold in Hong Kong's bak and flood half the city to cover it up.
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: The captain of Curtis;s yacht is confused and conflicted about the whole coverup and murder plot. [[spoiler:Soon he is DrivenToSuicide]].
* ItsPersonal: Curtis is convinced that there's more to Jerry's dogging of his projects than simple environmental activism. He's right, [[spoiler:Jerry's first boyfriend died working on a construction project for Curtis and it got covered up]].
* TheLostLenore: Curtis did love his long dead first wife and feels any other woman isn his life is a pale imitation of her.
* ManlyGay: Luther.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: A twisted version, as Bennet views Curtis re-hiring him (even for criminal jobs) to be this.
* OutOfFocus: George disappears for a large portion of the novel near the middle, after being captured by Curtis then escaping, as the story follows Kim for a while.
* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. Tony Fairchild, Wai Fung and Hartin Ha (the detectives George and Kim deal with in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong respectively) are all practical, reasonable men who do their jobs and diligently investigate the claims of George, Kim and Jerry, albeit with a bit of careful skepticism at first.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Bennett after torturing [[spoiler: Jerry]] by shoving a sock into his mouth and keeping it forcibly shut to nearly suffocate him]] then proceeds to tell him that HeKnowsTooMuch and remind him of an old saying about keeping quiet: specifically "Put a sock in it."
* ReverseMole: Curtis's employee [[spoiler:Mark]] is feeding Jerry information.
* ScienceHero: George and his engineering degree, which Curtis initially is trying to use for his benefit, but then is used to stop him.
* SmugSnake: Curtis is a very self-satisfied man, and he does have a grand, ruthless plan, but the worst Bond villain, on his worst day, would still be a bigger threat than him, given his tendency for stupid decisions.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Pallifer murders two men who George wounded for being useless. Curtis himself tends to see his henchmen as expendable as well and even kills some himself.
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* AdultFear: Kim's parents initially think that she did die while protesting against Curtis due to him spreading that story.
* TheAlcoholic: Colin Bennett. It caused him to make a mistake which killed a man and got him blackballed in the industry, just making him worse.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Mark]] undergoes a heroic version after he's caught spying on Curtis and MadeASlave on one of his construction gangs.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Curtis spends a while keeping George alive to try and recruit further.
* CoDragons: Former pot smuggler Morgan Pillager, Curtis's former construction foreman turned lackey Colin Bennett and Hong Kong racketeer Jackie Tian are all Curtis henchmen with a fair amount of promincen and authority, although not at the same time.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Curtis was always a corner-cutter and bullying executive but is living off of investors money at the moment (over-selling shares in projects) and plans to steal all the gold in Hong Kong's bak and flood half the city to cover it up.
* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: The captain of Curtis;s yacht is confused and conflicted about the whole coverup and murder plot. [[spoiler:Soon he is DrivenToSuicide]].
* ItsPersonal: Curtis is convinced that there's more to Jerry's dogging of his projects than simple environmental activism. He's right, [[spoiler:Jerry's first boyfriend died working on a construction project for Curtis and it got covered up]].
* TheLostLenore: Curtis did love his long dead first wife and feels any other woman isn his life is a pale imitation of her.
* ManlyGay: Luther.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: A twisted version, as Bennet views Curtis re-hiring him (even for criminal jobs) to be this.
* OutOfFocus: George disappears for a large portion of the novel near the middle, after being captured by Curtis then escaping, as the story follows Kim for a while.
* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. Tony Fairchild, Wai Fung and Hartin Ha (the detectives George and Kim deal with in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong respectively) are all practical, reasonable men who do their jobs and diligently investigate the claims of George, Kim and Jerry, albeit with a bit of careful skepticism at first.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Bennett after torturing [[spoiler: Jerry]] by shoving a sock into his mouth and keeping it forcibly shut to nearly suffocate him]] then proceeds to tell him that HeKnowsTooMuch and remind him of an old saying about keeping quiet: specifically "Put a sock in it."
* ReverseMole: Curtis's employee [[spoiler:Mark]] is feeding Jerry information.
* ScienceHero: George and his engineering degree, which Curtis initially is trying to use for his benefit, but then is used to stop him.
* SmugSnake: Curtis is a very self-satisfied man, and he does have a grand, ruthless plan, but the worst Bond villain, on his worst day, would still be a bigger threat than him, given his tendency for stupid decisions.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Pallifer murders two men who George wounded for being useless. Curtis himself tends to see his henchmen as expendable as well and even kills some himself.
