Consider Yourself Dead

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'''''Consider Yourself Dead''''' is a 1978 [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] novel by British author [[James Hadley Chase]].

==Synopsis==
Ex cop Mike Frost, after being in and out of jobs for long, is one day invited by Marcia grace to apply for a lucrative security guard job in Las Vegas with one of her best friends. A thrilled Frost flies immediately to Las Vegas and takes up the job, with the least perception of the hazards he will have to encounter.

==Plot summary==
Ex cop Mike Frost, after being in and out of different jobs for long, is one day met by Marcia grace, and invited to apply for a lucrative security guard job in Las Vegas with one of her best friends. A thrilled Frost flies immediately to Las Vegas with his miniature savings and meets with Marcia's friend, who tells him that he will have to guard Italian mafia Grandi's estate where his daughter Gina has been kept in confinement by her father after a failed kidnap attempt in Italy. He immediately gets to work at the books where Gina is staying in solitary confinement, where he is met with co guard Jack Marvin, a difficult supervisor and a japanese Cook Suka, who talks less but observes a lot.

Soon frost meets Marcia and spends time with her, who is actually revealed to be working for her uncle in Last Vegas, Lu Silk, a professional hitman and criminal, who is actually plotting to kidnap Grandi's daughter Gina for Ransom, and wanted a suitable man to be placed on the job as security guard who would be an inside man for them. Marcia approached Frost and convinced him to take up to he job for this reason. But cop that he is, frost is not kept in dark for long and he soon confronts the gang, who tell him that he had the choice to agree to work for them for a share in the random money, or to leave, with a warning that Lu will kill him if he accepts the offer and then back out or tries to sell the gang out.

A greedy Frost takes up the offer, and the gang hatch a plan to carry out the kidnap. Lu manages to get records of illegal transactions of Grando in Italian banks that they believe can land him in jail, and decide to blackmail him along with the kidnap of his daughter, thinking that he will simply pay up for fear of going to jail. They decide to split the loot amongst themselves tactfully via documents they would force Grandi to sign, and Frost decides to for to Switzerland thereafter. As part of plan, they decide to dope Marvin and Amando, neutralize the defences of the Villa using Gina, after Frost convinced unhappy Gina who dislikes her father for what he has done,to cooperate in her kidnapping, and make away with Gina, while Frost will play innocent and convince Grando to pay up the ransom.

Unfortunately the task is not easy. Frost realizes that though she will cooperate, Gina is a reefer and can spill the beans,and Grandi personally visits the Villa and makes Frost in charge of security.

Nevertheless, they manage to carry out the kidnap, but are in for the shock of their lives, when Gina runs away on her own, and it is revealed that Grandi knew about their plan all along, and Suka is actually a Japanese agent working for Grandi who was secretly spying on the others in the Villa.

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[[Category:Novels by James Hadley Chase]]
[[Category:1978 British novels]]
[[Category:Thriller novels]]

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