Crocodile Tears - Anthony Horowitz [0]
Crocodile Tears
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Chapter 1 - FIRE STAR
Chapter 2 - REFLECTIONS IN A MIRROR
Chapter 3 - CARDS BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Chapter 4 - OFF-ROAD VEHICLE
Chapter 5 - DEATH AND CHAMPAGNE
Chapter 6 - NINE FRAMES PER SECOND
Chapter 7 - BAD NEWS
Chapter 8 - THE LION’S DEN
Chapter 9 - INVISIBLE MAN
Chapter 10 - GREENFIELDS
Chapter 11 - CONDITION RED
Chapter 12 - HELL ON EARTH
Chapter 13 - EXIT STRATEGY
Chapter 14 - FEELING THE HEAT
Chapter 15 - Q & A
Chapter 16 - SPECIAL DELIVERY
Chapter 17 - A SHORT FLIGHT TO NOWHERE
Chapter 18 - WOLF MOON
Chapter 19 - ALL FOR CHARITY
Chapter 20 - PURE TORTURE
Chapter 21 - RAW DEAL
Chapter 22 - MARGIN OF ERROR
Chapter 23 - SIMBA DAM
Chapter 24 - UNHAPPY LANDING
Chapter 25 - SOFT CENTERS
Acknowledgements
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crocodile tears: fake or hypocritical tears.
From the belief that crocodiles will pretend
to cry in order to attract their victims . . .
and will then cry for real as they devour them.
1
FIRE STAR
RAVI CHANDRA WAS GOING to be a rich man.
It made his head spin to think about it. In the next few hours, he would earn more than he had managed in the last five years: a fantastic sum, paid in cash, right into his hands. It was the start of a new life. He would be able to buy his wife the clothes that she wanted, a car, a proper diamond ring to replace the band of cheap gold she had worn since they were married. He would take the boys, aged four and six, to Disneyland in California. And he would travel to London and see the Indian cricket team play at Lord’s, something he had dreamed about all his life but had never thought possible.
Until now.
He sat hunched up beside the window of the bus that was taking him to work, as he had