Not My Thing

Rating:
Summary: The old maestro hasn't lost his touch !
Review: NOT MY THING 1983 (Chase died in 1986)
The plot of "Not My Thing" is not only very realistic but also very imaginative : the professional killer organizes a perfect murder, a very dirty one, and when everything is ready he changes everything in a kidnapping ! And a strange one, the ransom money is not paid to get back the girl alive ! Everybody manages to double cross the others...
The main part is given to Ng Vee, a vietnamese refugee. Ng Vee is a real straight arrow, well educated by a priest and not interested in money. He just want to get a job and help his mother, and he is a worker ! Thin and lightly built he has got a strange power in his fingers because an old chinese has given to him a special knowledge of the human body... The life has been very hard to him, he has fighted to protect his mother and he has got such nerves that he strongly impressed his new master, a professional killer.
Ernie, his master, is the Evil, he involves him in crime, he proposes him girls, he proposes him big money (half a million dollars), a spendid life cruising on a yatch... Shannon, the snatched girl, is the Good. The suspense is tremendous : has he got enough guts to betray his master ? Will he find a way to rescue Shannon ?
Imagine you are making a movie of it, your main task would be the staging of such a wonderful character.

Book introduction :
MARRIAGE, MURDER AND MAYHEM...
Ruthless tycoon Sherman Jamison is determined to have an heir. He will let nothing stand in his way. Not only his wife unable to provide him with a child, but as a devout Catholic she will not consent to the divorce her husband so desperately wants.
And so Jamison decides to get rid of her.
PERMANENTLY
Not my thing is the powerful, compulsive new novel of betrayal and death from James Hadley Chase, the master of mystery and adventure.

Other introduction :
Jamison finished his drink and set down the glass with a vicious clink. His thoughts now were only for Tarnia.
" Bed with you ? Get out of my sight ! I've had enough of this. I want a divorce ! "
There was a long pause, then Shannon walked to the door.
" When you want me to go, tell me, " she said quietly. " I will pray for you. "
Jamison heard the door close softly, then he heard her walk slowly up the stairs.
So vicious was his mood, so frustrated his mind, that he said half aloud, " Right, you stupid, religious bitch, you've signed your own death-warrant ! "

Rating:
Summary: Needs a Divorce
Review: Sherman Jamison is rich, and I mean stinkingly very rich. No one will inherit his wealth aside his wife who refused him a divorce and he wants someone else to inherit his cash other than the wife. He has amassed millions and now wants someone to pass them on to, the next in the family line. But he has no heir as his wife has been unable to have children. Refusing to let this stand in his way, Sherman pleads for a divorce but his wife, a devout Catholic, refuses to give into his demands. If she will not agree, she will have to be removed. Sherman hires a professional killer to do the deed but this is only the beginning of a thrilling and electrifying story of revenge, betrayal and murder. Again suspense become the theme of a drama scene