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The Shaman

Roland Perry
Chapters (74)
  1. COVER PAGE
  2. ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
  3. DEDICATION
  4. AL HAUT
  5. PART ONE: TASMANIAN DEVILS
  6. 1 THE INTERVENTION
  7. 2 WOMBAT ASSIGNMENT
  8. 3 DIVINE JOKER
  9. 4 BRUNY ISLAND BLOW-OUT
  10. 5 THE ISOLATED PROPHET
  11. 6 BIG MAC
  12. 7 THE APPARITION
  13. 8 THE SCARE
  14. 9 BIKIE INVASION
  15. 10 THE OFFER
  16. PART TWO: SPY
  17. 11 ASSIGNMENT LAOS
  18. 12 PINPRICKS
  19. 13 UNEASILY UP THE MEKONG
  20. 14 DETECTIVE UNDERCOVER
  21. 15 THE PLOT
  22. 16 NOWHERE TO HIDE
  23. 17 DRUG THIEF
  24. 18 A HOSTILE RECEPTION
  25. 19 THE RECOVERY
  26. PART THREE: VISION FOES
  27. 20 THE FOURTH BARON BLEULANCE
  28. 21 THE PLASMOID AND THE STAR IN A JAR
  29. 22 THE BURNING
  30. 23 FOLLOWING THE VISION
  31. 24 ORANGEY SQUEEZE
  32. 25 EXPOSE
  33. 26 SINGAPORE ABORTED
  34. 27 THE NAKED DISCIPLE
  35. 28 THE BLOCK
  36. 29 FIRE, IRE AND MIRE
  37. 30 CONQUER’S CONQUEROR
  38. 31 A TARGET TOO DANGEROUS
  39. PART FOUR STRIKE THREE
  40. 32 PASSPORTS TO SHOWDOWN
  41. 33 THE SHADOW
  42. 34 TOWER OF FATE
  43. 35 HAT-TRICK
  44. 36 BURIAL PARTY
  45. 37 WREST POINT OF CONTENTION
  46. 38 ESCAPE
  47. PART FIVE PROPHET IN EXILE
  48. 39 WOMBAT DE-BRIEFING
  49. 40 ENTER MR X
  50. 41 THE CIA STEPS IN
  51. 42 THE RUSSIANS BEGIN THEIR PLAY
  52. 43 THE KISLEY CONNECTION
  53. 44 THE SCOOP
  54. 45 PLAN B
  55. 46 THE NIGHTCLUB
  56. 47 RIGGED
  57. 48 THE SET-UP
  58. 49 HANDBAG OPENING
  59. 50 HONEY-TRAPPED
  60. PART SIX STRIKE AND COUNTER-STRIKE
  61. 51 KIDNAP
  62. 52 ON THE RUN AGAIN
  63. 53 THE FORGIVEN
  64. 54 REVENGE SERVED HOT
  65. 55 A WIN FOR BLEULANCE
  66. 56 A STUMBLE IN GRACE
  67. 57 AS YOU WERE
  68. 58 THE FOURTH MAN
  69. 59 DEATH ON 81st STREET WEST
  70. 60 A GRAM OF DECEIT
  71. 61 POISON PACKAGE
  72. 62 ENGINEER OF DELIVERANCE
  73. POSTSCRIPT
  74. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COVER PAGE

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ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Also by Roland Perry

Fiction

The Assassin on the Bangkok Express

The Honourable Assassin

Faces in the Rain

Blood is a Stranger

Programme for a Puppet

Non-fiction

Red Lead

Tea and Scotch with Bradman

Anzac Sniper

Monash and Chauvel Céleste

The Queen, Her Lover and the

Most Notorious Spy in History

Horrie the War Dog

Bill the Bastard

The Fight for Australia

(originally published as Pacific 360°)

The Changi Brownlow

The Australian Light Horse

Sailing to the Moon

Bradman’s Invincibles

The Ashes

Miller’s Luck

Last of the Cold War Spies

Monash

Bradman’s Best Ashes Teams

Bradman’s Best

Captain Australia

Waugh’s Way

Bold Warnie

Mel Gibson

Don Bradman (originally

published as The Don)

The Fifth Man

Lethal Hero

Shane Warne, Master Spinner

The Exile

Hidden Power

Elections Sur Ordinateur

Documentary films

Hidden Power:

The Programming of the

President

The Raising of a Galleon’s Ghost

Strike Swiftly

Ted Kennedy and the Pollsters

The Force

DEDICATION

To:

Al Haut,

the memory of Tim Fischer,

the memory of William Sam Conley

AL HAUT

AL HAUT

Piscis Australis is a star constellation in the southern sky.

Al Haut, meaning the ‘mouth of the great fish’, is the brightest star in this constellation.

The ancient Greeks depicted Al Haut as swallowing the water (of all knowledge) poured by another star constellation, Aquarius, the water bearer.

One interpretation is that the Age of Aquarius, which began in 2018, will deliver comprehension of all things to the one known as Al Haut.

PART ONE: TASMANIAN DEVILS

PART ONE

TASMANIAN DEVILS

1 THE INTERVENTION

1

THE INTERVENTION

Pon Cavalier rode the motorbike from a dirt track up to a main road. She stopped, looked left and right and then began the ride up a small gradient that would take her over the road. She didn’t see the fast-moving motorbike coming from her left, which was obscured by an advertisement hoarding. They collided with a thud that sounded like a gunshot. Pon was thrown five metres in the air before landing against a fence. The middle-aged driver of the speeding bike was knocked out on impact.

The accident happened near the local Buddhist temple in the village of Wang Takhian, near Mae Sot on the Thai–Burma border. Six young, yellow-robed trainee monks, followed by as many dogs, rushed to the scene. The monks held up traffic. The speeding driver had head injuries. Pon was also out to it, with blood coming from her mouth and nose attracting two of the dogs, who sniffed around her head as fluid trickled to the road. A third dog, his back leg damaged from a previous accident, balanced and lifted his crippled limb to urinate on one of the bikes.

A chubby adult monk arrived, looked at Pon’s eyes, put his ear to her chest, and ran fingers down her neck. He could hardly detect a pulse as police cars and ambulances arrived, sirens blaring.