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Derek Picot is an international hotelier who has managed luxury hotels on five continents. He describes his career as a game of snakes and ladders without the ladders. This, he says, is why he had to find work in so many places on the globe.

From the Savoy in London to the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong he has witnessed his guests engage in homicide, suicide, ecocide, regicide, pesticide and general over-indulgence. There have been world shaking events that have unfolded in those great establishments which he has managed. What about the day they blew the whole hotel up in Kuwait? Or when, on one of those Royal Tours, he sent the Queen to the top floor of the hotel in a lift all on her own. Or when they inadvertently served bacon in the Caesa ...more

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No One Saw It Coming

by Susan Lewis

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Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (The Seven Sisters #8)

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