The Governor. Vanessa Frake
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For my wife Ju and our daughter Annie-Mae.
Always.
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Note to Readers
5 Dedication
6 Contents
7 Prologue
8 Chapter 1 New kid on the block
9 Chapter 2 Game face
10 Chapter 3 One bad apple spoils the bunch
11 Chapter 4 Chirpy chappy
12 Chapter 5 Lording it up
13 Chapter 6 What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
14 Chapter 7 Shit show
15 Chapter 8 The first cut is the deepest
16 Chapter 9 Drugs on a wire
17 Chapter 10 Ace Ventura: Prison Detective
18 Chapter 11 Who let the dogs out?
19 Chapter 12 A shadow of himself
20 Chapter 13 Auntie Rose
21 Chapter 14 Baking the truth
22 Chapter 15 Another rung on the ladder
23 Chapter 16 Law and hoarder
24 Chapter 17 The boy that cried wolf
25 Chapter 18 Ambushed
26 Chapter 19 Rum bugger, run
27 Chapter 20 Who’s the BOSS?
28 Chapter 21 What a shambles
29 Chapter 22 Bent officer
30 Chapter 23 The Colonel’s secret
31 Chapter 24 Who d’ya think you’re talking to?
32 Chapter 25 Staring evil in the eye
33 Chapter 26 Hooch pooch
34 Chapter 27 Ready-made family
35 Chapter 28 Gotcha!
36 Chapter 29 Bent coppers
37 Chapter 30 Surprise of my life
38 Chapter 31 Don’t mess up the curtsey
39 Chapter 32 Playing dead
40 Chapter 33 My way or the highway
41 Chapter 34 The beginning of the end
42 Chapter 35 Curtains
43 Chapter 36 Riot act
44 Chapter 37 The past always catches up
45 Chapter 38 Let sleeping dogs lie
46 Acknowledgements
47 About the Publisher
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