A series of apparently unconnected events prompts television journalist Eliza Gunn and investigative reporter Frank O'Hara to embark on a journey around the world and into the realm of spies, big business, and assassins.

The old man looked up and glared at the maintenance man.

‘What is it, something wrong?’ he asked. The man did not answer. He walked slowly across the dark room toward Hooker and stood in front of the desk.

He was unbuttoning his shirt.

The room was deadly still except for the ticking in Hooker’s chest.

The clock began to run faster.

Tick . . tick ... tick... tick

‘What are you doing? What’ s the meaning of this?’

Still no answer. The man was staring at him with hate.

He opened the shirt .

‘Permit me, General. I am Chameleon,’ he said.

Also by William Diehl in Sphere Books:

SHARKY’S MACHINE

Chameleon

WILLIAM DIEHL

SPHERE BOOKS LIMITED

30-32 Gray’s Inn Road, London WCIX 8JL

First published in Great Britain by

Sphere Books Ltd 1982

Copyright © by William Diehl, 1982

Reprinted 1983

ISBN 07221 3006 6 (hardback)

ISBN 0 7221 2996 3 (paperback)

TRADE MARK

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

Set in Linotron Times

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Collins, Glasgow

For Virginia—

And the poetry of her spirit

Arigato, Lizzie

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

With gratitude.

To Mom and Dad, Cathy and John, Stan, Bill

and Melissa.

To Temple and little Katie.

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