Cold Black. Alex Shaw

      

       About Alex Shaw

      ALEX SHAW spent the second half of the 1990s in Kyiv, Ukraine, teaching Drama and running his own business consultancy before being headhunted for a division of Siemens. The next few years saw him doing business for the company across the former USSR, the Middle East, and Africa.

      Cold Blood, Cold Black and Cold East are commercially published by HarperCollins (HQ Digital) in English and Luzifer Verlag in German.

      Alex, his wife and their two sons divide their time between homes in Kyiv, Ukraine, Worthing, England and Doha, Qatar. Follow Alex on twitter: @alexshawhetman or find him on Facebook.

       Also by Alex Shaw

       Cold Blood

       Cold East

      Cold Black

      ALEX SHAW

      

      HQ

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd.

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

      This edition first published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018

      Copyright © Alex Shaw 2018

      Alex Shaw asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      E-book Edition © Alex Shaw 2018 ISBN: 9780008306335

      Version: 2018-07-17

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       About Alex Shaw

       Also by Alex Shaw

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Prologue

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       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

      

       Chapter 16

      

       Chapter 17

      

       Epilogue

      

       Keep Reading …

       Dear Reader,

       Dear Reader,

      

       About the Publisher

       To my wife, Galia, and my sons, Alexander & Jonathan.

       To family in England and Ukraine.

      

       Prologue

       Harley Street, London, England

      Aidan Snow sat on the examination table wearing only