Ted Allbeury - The Twentieth Day of January

She smiled indulgently as he looked at the long slim legs, the neat black bush, the flat young belly, and she leaned forward as he looked at her full firm breasts. His eyes moved to her pretty face when the words distracted him on ITN’s News at Ten.

“…do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute…”

And only for a second or two did his eyes wander to the screen where a tall man in a dark suit stood with his hand on a Bible, in front of Chief Justice Elliot. But it was a second too long, and he heard her say, “ That is the bloody limit.” And that, I am sorry to say, was that. It was Monday the twentieth of January.

Ted Allbeury was a lieutenant-colonel in the British Intelligence Corps during World War II, and later a successful executive in the fields of marketing, advertising and radio. He began his writing career in the early 1970s and became well known for his espionage novels, but also published one highly-praised general novel, The Choice, and a short story collection, Other Kinds of Treason. His novels have been published in twenty-three languages, including Russian. He died on 4th December 2005.

Copyright © 1980 the Estate of Ted Allbeury

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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

The author has asserted his moral right in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act, 1988 [UK].

This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Granada Publishing, Great Britain, in 1980.

ISBN-13: 978-0-486-81922-8

ISBN-10: 0-486-81922-1

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