Goodbye, Mr. Boogie
(2025)(The ninth book in the Inspector Samuel Tay series)
A novel by Jake Needham
ONE MAN WITH A RIFLE
CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
The story built slowly in law enforcement and intelligence circles.
A single man was responsible for the string of high-profile political assassinations that had been occurring all around the world. The common signature in every attack gave some credence to the single-gunman theory. Every killing had involved a sniper shooting from an elevated position at very long distance.
Once the belief in the existence of a single unknown shooter began to spread, so many killings were blamed on him that the Director of the CIA wondered out loud if the mysterious assassin was just a figment of somebody's imagination. 'We're making this guy into the Boogieman,' the DCI snapped.
The name stuck. And everybody started looking for the Boogieman.
Inspector Samuel Tay has no interest in any of this, of course. He may once have been a legendary homicide detective for the Singapore police, but now he's just another retired old fogey filling his days as well as he can. Tay doesn't read the news anymore. He simply has no interest in it. And he has never heard of the Boogieman.
But when Colonel David of the Royal Thai Police pleads for his help, all of that suddenly changes.
Tay trusts Colonel David. They got along well when they worked together once. Now Tay even looks at Colonel David as something like a friend, and Tay doesn't have many friends.
It seems the Mossad station chief in Bangkok has whispered to Colonel David that he thinks the Boogieman is in Bangkok preparing for another political assassination. With a major international gathering of world leaders scheduled for the city within a few weeks, Colonel David knows he has a problem. A big one.
But what is it Colonel David thinks Tay can do, exactly? There's been no crime. At least not yet. There's really nothing for Tay to investigate.
"You tag him, and we'll bag him," the Mossad station chief tells Tay. "Then it's goodbye, Mr. Boogie."
Tay has no difficulty figuring out what that means.
Tay isn't sure how he feels about fingering a man to be murdered by the Mossad, even if that man really is a murderer himself, but he decides he'll worry about that later. The first problem is to help Colonel David find the bastard and stop him before he kills another major world figure.
Actually, Tay realizes, that's the second problem.
The first problem is to figure out whether the Boogieman even exists. Or if the Mossad is running in some kind of a game that neither he nor Colonel David understand.
Genre: Mystery
CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
The story built slowly in law enforcement and intelligence circles.
A single man was responsible for the string of high-profile political assassinations that had been occurring all around the world. The common signature in every attack gave some credence to the single-gunman theory. Every killing had involved a sniper shooting from an elevated position at very long distance.
Once the belief in the existence of a single unknown shooter began to spread, so many killings were blamed on him that the Director of the CIA wondered out loud if the mysterious assassin was just a figment of somebody's imagination. 'We're making this guy into the Boogieman,' the DCI snapped.
The name stuck. And everybody started looking for the Boogieman.
Inspector Samuel Tay has no interest in any of this, of course. He may once have been a legendary homicide detective for the Singapore police, but now he's just another retired old fogey filling his days as well as he can. Tay doesn't read the news anymore. He simply has no interest in it. And he has never heard of the Boogieman.
But when Colonel David of the Royal Thai Police pleads for his help, all of that suddenly changes.
Tay trusts Colonel David. They got along well when they worked together once. Now Tay even looks at Colonel David as something like a friend, and Tay doesn't have many friends.
It seems the Mossad station chief in Bangkok has whispered to Colonel David that he thinks the Boogieman is in Bangkok preparing for another political assassination. With a major international gathering of world leaders scheduled for the city within a few weeks, Colonel David knows he has a problem. A big one.
But what is it Colonel David thinks Tay can do, exactly? There's been no crime. At least not yet. There's really nothing for Tay to investigate.
"You tag him, and we'll bag him," the Mossad station chief tells Tay. "Then it's goodbye, Mr. Boogie."
Tay has no difficulty figuring out what that means.
Tay isn't sure how he feels about fingering a man to be murdered by the Mossad, even if that man really is a murderer himself, but he decides he'll worry about that later. The first problem is to help Colonel David find the bastard and stop him before he kills another major world figure.
Actually, Tay realizes, that's the second problem.
The first problem is to figure out whether the Boogieman even exists. Or if the Mossad is running in some kind of a game that neither he nor Colonel David understand.
Genre: Mystery
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