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As students they had planned to steal artefacts from a Vancouver museum.
Then Michael Malone’s surprise meeting with Emma Virtanen, ten years after she mysteriously left him during the heist, raises many questions.
He remembers the circumstances vividly and how everything fell to pieces.
Is it a coincidence or is there something more sinister about this meeting in a coffee shop after so long?
This Emma seems very different from the one of ten years ago.
Michael has always had his doubts as to whether he was duped.
Did Emma take the artefacts and leave him to be caught?
Emma tells Michael she had wondered what happened to him, but offers no explanation as to her disappearance a decade ago.
Can they really be friends again? Or more?
Emma says she is in an unhappy marriage to wealthy Chinese diamond businessman, Jonathan Zheng who is involved in illegal trading.
Michael doesn’t know what to believe; but, once he has met Emma’s husband, and his bodyguard Wark, he understands that she is trapped.
Together with Michael’s friend Charlie, the three of them plan to ‘take down’ Zheng.
Renting an office in the Zheng building, Michael goes undercover as John Robie, a diamond dealer, to discover how this can be achieved.
With Charlie’s gift for making useful gizmos and ‘John’s’ knack of interacting with the security guards, a plan starts to take shape.
Michael begins to gather the information he needs to access the safe deposit boxes of Zheng, where he believes they will find information to set Emma free, as well as hidden riches.
The heist is scheduled for Labour Day weekend when the building will be at its quietest. Simple?
Armed with the tools they need, the three infiltrate the building and so their mission begins.
Will Michael be able to free Emma from Zheng’s clutches? Will she betray him again?
Are Charlie’s espionage techniques up to scratch?
Will there be a happy ending? Or will Zheng keep control?
The fate of them all hangs in the balance...
'Meaner Things' is a brilliantly plotted mystery story.
'Kept me gripped to the last page' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of 'Cold Kill'.
David Anderson grew up in Northern Ireland during the political troubles. He moved to Vancouver in 1991 and for several years owned a second-hand and antiquarian bookshop. Nowadays he runs an internet out-of-print book business, although writing is taking up an increasing amount of his time. * Meaner Things * is his third novel.
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