Sea of Lies: An Espionage Thriller
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Nevertheless, I started writing the Lies thriller series—the next installment, Pack of Lies, is in the works—to entertain rather than persuade the world of the rightness of my interpretations of otherwise unsatisfactorily explained sequences of events or calamities. These books are works of fiction and not investigative journalism.
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I’m originally from Ohio but was always interested in living and working abroad so I did my undergraduate degree at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. My first job after an MBA from London Business School lasted less than two months before my boss shipped me to Singapore for a four-month project to keep me away from head office (rather than undertake anything momentous in the Far East). That short-term project is now in its thirty-third year. Along the way, I’ve been fortunate enough to live mostly in Singapore, but also logged many years in Hong Kong with stops in Kuala Lumpur, Bangalore and Colombo.
Sea of Lies is the culmination of nagging doubts dating back over thirty years. In 1985 a leading Asia newspaper alleged that my Singapore housemate was the Singapore CIA chief of station. This came as news to both of us. I have questioned appearances versus reality ever since. MH370’s disappearance spurred me to write this first novel. In 2014, I traveled to Burma three times to research Sea of Lies, meeting helpful people who became very loose models for several characters. I crafted the plot from these people’s and my speculations, public research and my Asia experiences since 1983.
I live in Singapore, where I’m a keen mountain biker, former baseball coach and avid fisherman. I enjoy red wine, dark chocolate and raucous friends around the table. If you’d like to connect, I’m on Twitter @TrueLiesBlog. I’m also on Facebook under Bradley West, Author and have an author website at www.bradleywest.net.
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Copyright © 2016 by Bradley Alan West
Singapore
Published in 2016 by Bradley Alan West
Cover art, layout and design: Aneirin Flynn
Editing: Lael Stanczak
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.
Disclaimer: On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing vanished from radar screens, and neither plane, nor people have been seen since. Sea of Lies addresses many real-life topics, starting with MH370's disappearance, but the characters and events depicted are fictitious and the reader should draw no factual inferences from the story that follows.
Sea of Lies / Bradley West – 1st ed. June 2016
ISBN: 978-981-09-8866-1 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-981-09-8968-2 (ebook)
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Road to Nowhere
Let’s Make a Deal
Help is on the Way
Club Avatar
The Sting
Back and Black
The Fourth Policy
Pitch Perfect
Rangoon Heat
Toad Hall
Aloha
All Fours
Triangulated
Shanghai Surprise
Question Time
On Target
Dangerous Liaison
Failure to Communicate
Misdirection
Real Deals
Berserk
Glowing Portrayals
Contagion
Turnabout
Spinning Wheels
Cratered
Secrets
Zero Hour
Up in the Air
On the Run
Tracking Errors
Ride Sharing
You Gotta Believe
The Taking of MH370
Flights of Fancy
Double Dealing
Bait and Switch
Changes in Attitudes
Collateral Damage
Last Rites
Maneuvering for Position
Tails, I Win
Colombo Shuffleboard
Bedtime Stories
Countdown
Party Planning
Mind Your Manners
Train in Vain
Death Race Ratmalana
Freedom
Suspended Animation
Diplomatic Impunity
Primed for Launch
Big Bang
Playing the Fool
Hanging Fire
Blitzkrieg
Mac Attack
Beach Wear
Oklahoma Hold’em
The Lizard Cage
Self-Help
Sanguine Shores
Slippery Bob
Rose-Tinted
Notes on Nomenclature: City, Country and Measurement Guidelines
Abbreviations and Jargon
Cast of Characters in Order of Appearance
Acknowledgements
About the Author
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