Coffin’s Game. Gwendoline Butler

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COPYRIGHT

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1997

      Copyright © Gwendoline Butler 1997

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      Source ISBN: 9780006510116

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007545483

      Version: 2014–07–08

DEDICATION

      My thanks to Professor Geoffrey Lee Williams for help about terrorism and terrorists, and to Inspector Euan Forbes and John Kennedy Melling for details of technical procedures.

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

Prelude

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

PROFILE OF THE AVERAGE TERRORIST

Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       THE CASE OF ALICE YEOMAN

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       Author’s Note

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

PROLOGUE

      A brief Calendar of the life and career of John Coffin, Chief Commander of the Second City of London Police.

      John Coffin is a Londoner by birth, his father is unknown and his mother was a difficult lady of many careers and different lives who abandoned him in infancy to be looked after by a woman who may have been a relative of his father and who seems to have acted as his mother’s dresser when she was on the stage. He kept in touch with this lady, whom he called Mother, lodged with her in his early career and looked after her until she died.

      After serving briefly in the army, he joined the Metropolitan Police, soon transferring to the plain-clothes branch as a detective.

      He became a sergeant and was very quickly promoted to inspector a year later. Ten years later, he was a superintendent and then chief superintendent.

      There was a bad patch in his career about which he is reluctant to talk. His difficult family background has complicated his life and possibly accounts for an unhappy period when, as he admits, СКАЧАТЬ