The Governor. Vanessa Frake

      

      

Copyright

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      Source ISBN: 9780008390051

      Ebook Edition © April 2021 ISBN: 9780008390068

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Dedication

      For my wife Ju and our daughter Annie-Mae.

      Always.

      Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Note to Readers

      5  Dedication

      6  Contents

      7  Prologue

      8  Chapter 1 New kid on the block

      9  Chapter 2 Game face

      10  Chapter 3 One bad apple spoils the bunch

      11  Chapter 4 Chirpy chappy

      12  Chapter 5 Lording it up

      13  Chapter 6 What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

      14  Chapter 7 Shit show

      15  Chapter 8 The first cut is the deepest

      16  Chapter 9 Drugs on a wire

      17  Chapter 10 Ace Ventura: Prison Detective

      18  Chapter 11 Who let the dogs out?

      19  Chapter 12 A shadow of himself

      20  Chapter 13 Auntie Rose

      21  Chapter 14 Baking the truth

      22  Chapter 15 Another rung on the ladder

      23  Chapter 16 Law and hoarder

      24  Chapter 17 The boy that cried wolf

      25  Chapter 18 Ambushed

      26  Chapter 19 Rum bugger, run

      27  Chapter 20 Who’s the BOSS?

      28  Chapter 21 What a shambles

      29  Chapter 22 Bent officer

      30  Chapter 23 The Colonel’s secret

      31  Chapter 24 Who d’ya think you’re talking to?

      32  Chapter 25 Staring evil in the eye

      33  Chapter 26 Hooch pooch

      34  Chapter 27 Ready-made family

      35  Chapter 28 Gotcha!

      36  Chapter 29 Bent coppers

      37  Chapter 30 Surprise of my life

      38  Chapter 31 Don’t mess up the curtsey

      39  Chapter 32 Playing dead

      40  Chapter 33 My way or the highway

      41  Chapter 34 The beginning of the end

      42  Chapter 35 Curtains

      43  Chapter 36 Riot act

      44  Chapter 37 The past always catches up

      45  Chapter 38 Let sleeping dogs lie

      46  Acknowledgements

      47  About the Publisher

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