“A surprising plot and deceptively simple prose distinguish Jones’s exceptional thriller, his second after his impressive debut, 2012’s The Silent Oligarch.”
About the Author
For eleven years CHRIS MORGAN JONES worked at the world’s largest business intelligence agency. He has advised Middle Eastern governments, Russian oligarchs, New York banks, London hedge funds, and African mining companies. He is the author of The Silent Oligarch.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Morgan Jones, Chris, 1971–
The jackal’s share / Chris Morgan Jones.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-101-60589-9
1. Art dealers—England—Fiction. 2. Murder victims—Iran—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6113.O7483J33 2013
823’.92—dc23
201203951
Publisher’s Note
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.