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Father's Law - DW Smith
1986 UK hardback first edition, 1st impression, Macmillan, London A fine book in fine unclipped dust jacket Neat gift inscription to endpaper Tightly bound and square with clean contents and cloth The dustwrapper has no loss or tears A Detective Inspector Harry Fathers mystery, involving murder, robbery, kidnapping and a mysterious missing American A nice clean example of the authors first fictional work For Sale at £7.50 (approx $12) *PB1 - free delivery worldwide ! |
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The warehouse near Heathrow Airport was protected by high walls topped by barbed-wire and by the most advanced electronic security available. Three separate lines of monitors and surveillance devices, hidden cameras and electric eyes were linked to two central control systems - one on the warehouse site, one two miles away at the security company's offices. Shifts of six security guards manned the on-site control point and patrolled continuously. Any intruder would be spotted by human or mechanical means, immediately triggering alarms and automatically alerting the local police. At three p.m. on Monday, 8 October, 1984, the kind of property that demands such intensive protection arrived: approximately eight million pounds worth of gold bullion. About ten hours later it was expertly removed. As the working day began on the following Thursday, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Fathers sat at his desk at Scotland Yard reviewing the case. All six guards had been knocked out, tied up and drugged. None had seen the assailants. The electronic security had been overpowered just as swiftly and tracelessly. The intruders had even been able to send the coded 'all's well' signal every fifty minutes (an unusual interval which was supposed to add to the impregnability of the warehouse security). Patchy evidence plus logical deductions suggested the robbery had been done by six men who then left in two vehicles - a large truck that also carried the gold and a car. |
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