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By Dennis Wheatley

'Before there has been James Bond, there has been Gregory Sallust.' Tina Rosenberg, Salon.com
Contraband is the 1st in Dennis Wheatley's bestselling Gregory Sallust sequence that includes the debonair undercover agent Gregory Sallust, a forerunner to Ian Fleming's James Bond.

Gregory Sallust is a British Intelligence agent; a self-reliant thrill seeker with a love of event and a weak spot for women.

As Sallust enjoys a vacation in France earlier than beginning a brand new undertaking, he's intrigued through a stunning girl in a on line casino. Captivated through the elusive Sabine, he follows her to a rendezvous with a secret airman at nighttime. the subsequent morning, Sallust unearths himself less than assault and, even though he escapes possibility, Sabine disappears.
Returning to England, Sallust discovers a hoop of smugglers orchestrating the dispatch of heavy bombers with contraband items. while he discovers that an inspector from Scotland backyard can also be at the case, and that Sabine should be concerned, his loyalties are torn.

In an exciting begin to the Gregory Sallust sequence, Contraband is a narrative of overseas intrigue the place planes flit via evening to mystery touchdown grounds, and near-death reviews are masterfully stretched to nail-biting conclusions.

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If you’ve received a spouse or woman buddy they could turn out to be useful. ’ Then he became angrily away. To his shock he came across himself staring into Gerry Wells’s freckled face. The younger Inspector was once status there, clad in a neat dark-blue front room swimsuit, a black gentle hat dangling in a single hand and a walking-stick within the different. He used to be smiling greatly. ‘Well, how’s the beginner detective getting on? ’ he inquired cheerfully. ‘He’s not,’ Gregory snapped. ‘For God’s sake let’s have a drink. I’ve mucked up the total darned company. ’ Then he led the best way down the passage to the cocktail bar. ‘Let’s listen the worst,’ Wells prompt after they have been seated at one of many little tables with beverages earlier than them. ‘I met her right here ahead of lunch,’ Gregory tossed off his drink and ordered one other, ‘staged the social gathering completely, introduced outdated Sir Pellinore alongside so she shouldn’t suspect I had any thought she was once staying the following. within the afternoon she met a few shopper on the Royal Palace—then I acquired her alongside to my rooms. every thing was once going swimmingly till after tea—then I misplaced my head and behaved like a silly schoolboy. ’ The Inspector chuckled. ‘Doesn’t do to combine excitement with enterprise, does it? ’ ‘Dammit, you don’t understand,’ Gregory burst out. ‘I’d fairly lose my correct hand than see her despatched to felony; so I spilled the beans that i used to be operating with the police and knew all in regards to the smuggling racket. Then I begged and prayed of her to avoid wasting herself by way of turning King’s facts. She wouldn’t promise something yet acknowledged she should have time to imagine and promised to permit me take her out to dinner if I known as the following for her back at 8 o’clock. i used to be pretty much convinced I’d persuaded her to return in with us; but if I became up right here a couple of minutes in the past i discovered she had quit—and hand over for strong. ’ Wells’s eyes narrowed a fragment. ‘What precisely did you divulge to her in the course of those empassioned moments? ’ ‘Oh, don’t worry your self, ardour or no I’m a wary previous chook. I simply acknowledged we have been directly to Gavin Fortescue’s smuggling racket often. I didn’t breathe a observe in regards to the mystery base among Calais and Boulogne or Quex Park, so there’s no cause to consider that they’ll abandon both of these hang-outs. She won’t use the Carlton back, in fact, and now she understands I’m a kind of unofficial policeman God on my own is familiar with if I’ll be capable to get involved along with her back in any respect. ’ ‘I wouldn’t fear approximately that. ’ The Inspector winked abruptly. ‘We’re now not all relatively nitwits, you recognize. I’ve had a number of males following her all day, simply when you slipped up. She’s at the highway to Quex Park now, as I’ve simply realized from one of many flying squad vehicles that’s sitting on her tail, and once I’ve had a chew to consume I’m flying down myself. whilst your guy informed me at the mobilephone, ten mins in the past, that you’d replaced in a rush to sprint out to dinner, I had a stoop I’d locate you right here. i assumed maybe you could prefer to select me—then—maybe you’ll see her back this night in spite of everything. ’ thirteen Gregory Sallust has reason to Hate his task Gregory and Wells thought of it not likely that the smugglers could adopt any operations a lot earlier than dead night, yet Sabine may do the adventure to Quex Park in a few hours and so may still arrive there by means of 1 / 4 prior ten, or a bit after.

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