On a dark, lonely quai of Paris’s 4th arrondissement, a woman is found suffering from amnesia, with the initials of the top Chinese atomic scientist tattooed on her buttock. This is the opening gambit of the second Mark Girland espionage adventure, a sequel to This is for Real, that surges forward with that compelling readability that has long established James Hadley Chase as the thriller maestro of the generation

Set against the background of the City of Prague and the frontiers of the Iron Curtain, this is the third episode of the chequered career of Mark Girland, layabout Secret Agent whose weaknesses are money and women. HAVE THIS ONE ON ME has the same excitability, the same compulsive readability and the same unputdownability as the two previous Mark Girland thrillers, THIS IS FOR REAL and YOU HAVE YOURSELF A DEAL (both now being filmed). Here is yet another of James Hadley Chase’s passports (there are now 61 of them) to oblivion of all cares, worries and troubles. When you pick up Chase, you are lost to the world