Nine Dragons - A Beatrix Rose Thriller: Hong Kong Stories Volume 1 (Beatrix Rose's Hong Kong Stories Book 2)
Mark Dawson
Language: English
Pages: 91
ISBN: B00UAOL3MK
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Beatrix Rose has been betrayed. Her husband has been murdered and her daughter, Isabella, abducted. She flees to the Hong Kong underworld to plot her revenge.
Those who wronged her will pay. Beatrix is the most dangerous woman you’ve ever met. She was an assassin for The Firm, the beyond top secret agency that did the dirty work for the British Secret Services.
She is lethal. Ethically flexible. Totally ruthless.
And you know what they say about payback…
Beatrix and Chau have disposed of Donnie Qi, the triad gangster who wanted Chau dead. They are given work by Mr. Ying, the underboss of the Wo Shun Wo clan. But when Beatrix intervenes to save the life of a young girl who has inadvertently crossed the triads, she finds herself in direct opposition to Ying.
Ying wants her dead. What will Beatrix be prepared to do to keep her loved ones safe?
NINE DRAGONS is the second prequel novella in the bestselling BLOOD & ROSES series, which follows the saga of the British government’s deadliest ex-operative.
The suggested reading order is:
WHITE DEVIL
NINE DRAGONS
DRAGON HEAD
IN COLD BLOOD - http://bit.ly/BeatrixRose1
BLOOD MOON RISING - http://bit.ly/BeatrixRose2
BLOOD AND ROSES - http://bit.ly/BeatrixRose3
for better or for worse. Mr. Ying had need of her services, and he was prepared to meet her price. That was the only thing that was relevant. “You’ve got this?” she asked him. “Go,” Chau said. CHAPTER SIX GRACE WAS sitting quietly in the chair. She looked up with alarm as Beatrix opened the door. “It’s all right,” she said. “It’s just me.” The girl’s face was ashen and her eyes stared ahead, unresponsive. Beatrix recognised the beginnings of shock. “It’s going to be fine, Grace. I’m
shadow stick and painted around her eyes. Finally, she fetched a dark mascara and thickened her lashes with it. When she was done, she gazed at her reflection. She hardly recognised herself. She reached back into the bag and took out a small triangle of paper. The edges had been folded over to form an improvised sachet. She opened it very, very carefully. The powder inside was still there. Ricin. Beatrix had purchased the plant from a dealer of herbs in Kowloon. She had planted it next to a
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A quick flash of discomfort passed across her pretty face. “She is asleep.” “And you’re not?” She squirmed. “I have work to do.” Beatrix knew that there was no point in pressing any further. Grace seemed uncomfortable with that subject and most likely wouldn’t answer. The woman had probably been hooking all night and the chances were that now she was in a drugged-out stupor, leaving her daughter to take care of the domestic chores. It was a shabby, unpleasant kind of life for a young girl, but