Title: The 9th directive
First published: 1966
Description: "They are specialist and each has his own method.
    Sorbi is a strangler but never uses his hands...
    Quicky the Greek uses the knife...
    Vincent works wild. The Japanese, Hideo, is a technician. Zotta's specialty is the miniature bomb.
    Kuo uses the gun."

The place is Bangkok. A Very Important Royal Person is on his way for a state visit. Somewhere in the teeming city an assassin waits for him.
     Only one person can track him down: Quiller--cynical, a loner, a man whose file bears the 9-suffix, Reliable Under Torture, a wolf set down to track wolves.
Subjects: Quiller (Fictitious character), Intelligence officers, British, Fiction, Intelligence service, Fiction, general, Quiller (fictitious character : hall), fiction
Places: Thailand, Great Britain, Bangkok (Thailand)