Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Tong
    The Tong
    The Tong
    Ebook41 pages25 minutes

    The Tong

    By D. E. Harrison

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The Madam in the multi-million-dollar Penthouse in Seattle receives a call from a phone in Asia. Problems have arisen, is it possible she can help? Her private 757 leaves Seattle within the hour.
    Landing in Hong Kong she drives out to meet with high Chinese officials. The problem they have is related to oil drilling in Mongolia and missionary work going on there.
    The fear of losing face at all levels of the government including members of the Central Committee is a grave situation. Could she help here?
    She next visits her former business associates and learns of their difficulties. Their private venture has become also entangled in the oil and worse with the TONG. For safety she changes modes of transportation to return to her plane and leaves for the night.

    A strange death in Hong Kong is followed by one in Seattle. Rage appears at the scene of the crime and is ready to solve it.
    The Chief of Detectives has only seen two similar deaths in his many years in Seattle.
    Will Rage find the underlying cause of this one and solve the case?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateFeb 10, 2019
    ISBN9780463442142
    The Tong
    Author

    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

    Read more from D. E. Harrison

    Related to The Tong

    Titles in the series (94)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Police Procedural For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Smrtss

      Apr 10, 2024

      In the dim, wet oven of the Huey’s troop compartment, the corporal sat on a flak jacket behind the sweat-stained backs of First Squad. Simms, the big machine gunner for Fire Team 2, leaned back against him, jamming the corporal’s knees right up to hi

      13 min read

    • Article

      We All Have Our Stories

      Mar 1, 2021

      We All Have Our Stories
      14 min read

    • Article

      Film

      Jun 12, 2022

      Film
      2 min read

    • Article

      King Of The Roundabout

      Mar 5, 2020

      King Of The Roundabout
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Elevator

      Oct 25, 2018

      The Elevator
      18 min read

    • Article

      Lost Children

      Aug 4, 2022

      Lost Children
      5 min read

    • Article

      Film

      Aug 10, 2021

      Film
      2 min read

    • Article

      Maggie Shipstead Interview: ‘I Went To The Arctic Five Times While Writing Great Circle’

      May 26, 2021

      American novelist Maggie Shipstead spent seven years researching her third work of fiction, Great Circle. The result is an almost 600-page epic, about a woman who attempts to fly around the globe in 1949, and the Hollywood actress who plays her in 20

      7 min read

    • Article

      We Come In Peace

      Mar 4, 2019

      We Come In Peace
      7 min read

    • Article

      Watching The World Go By

      Aug 3, 2021

      I think almost every house in Kansas had a porch swing. It was 1950 and no one had air conditioning, so we waited until the sun had gone down below the giant elm trees, and then people would wander out to their porches to sit in their porch swings an

      4 min read

    • Article

      Your Writing Critiqued

      Jan 4, 2024

      Your Writing Critiqued
      6 min read

    • Article

      Scapegoat Child

      Mar 15, 2018

      In the crucible of our family my sister burned like molten steel. Once I saw her arms outspread her legs hanging limp and useless wet saliva dripping from her tongue. I screamed they surrounded her lifted her onto the sheets where she convulsed for h

      7 min read

    • Article

      FAST & FURIOUS

      Sep 16, 2022

      BY ANTHONY HOROWITZ VINTAGE In The Man with the Golden Gun, the last James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming, Bond returns to London after he’s fallen into the hands of the KGB and been brainwashed by them. He’s been programmed to kill M, but the at

      3 min read

    • Article

      Ghost Girl, Banana

      Aug 21, 2023

      By the time I was 25, there were only two things I remembered about Mumma. The first was that she smelled of watermelons, the second was that we were happy. We’d taken our father’s name of course, but a name is only half a story. The other half exist

      6 min read

    • Article

      Sigrid Nunez

      Sep 15, 2017

      During the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see. The women were all war refugees. Before fleeing their homeland, they had witnessed the atrocities for which the Khme

      23 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Jun 18, 2020

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Take A Magpie Up To Heaven

      Nov 1, 2019

      Take A Magpie Up To Heaven
      2 min read

    • Article

      MUM IS MISSING Liane Moriarty

      Sep 8, 2021

      MUM IS MISSING Liane Moriarty
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Sudden Change

      Jul 31, 2020

      The Sudden Change
      35 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Tong

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Tong - D. E. Harrison

      The Tong

      By D. E. Harrison

      Copyright 2013 by D. E. Harrison

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 The Trip and the First Meeting

      Chapter 2 The Second Meeting and Fleeing for Safety

      Chapter 3 The Murder Scene

      Chapter 4 The Chewing Starts

      About D. E. Harrison

      Discover other titles by D. E. Harrison

      Chapter 1 The Trip and the First Meeting

      A multi-million-dollar Penthouse in Seattle has a three-sided view of Mt. Rainer, the Puget Sound, and the Space Needle from the same spot in the room. Only a turn of the head is needed for the view.

      In the room sits a 20-foot solid walnut desk. The desk sits on a blood red silk rug. The rug is from main land China. They never allow such a master piece to leave their country, but she has it on her floor. The rug has a story of its own. The woman known only as the ‘Madam’ is sitting behind the desk. She is called Madam out of respect, boss would never do. Besides, no one knows her name.

      The Madam behind the desk is a dark-haired beauty some place between twenty-five and forty-five years old. Some have described her as statuesque, charming, stately, debonair, classic, deadly, cold, and calculating but never in her presence.

      The Madam is at her 20-foot walnut desk taking a phone call. The phone is an old black Bakelite and one of several lines. from her private telecommunications system and satellite. Few have her private number on

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1