The Golden Face - William Le Queux - Bog

"The Golden Face." The "Golden Face" is the mysterious leader of an organised gangs of ruthless thieves. The reader is taken on a step-by-step descent through the ranks of the dastardly organisation as the protagonist is thrown the underworld of crime. Extract: Grown accustomed during the war, however, to fending for myself and overcoming difficulties and problems of one sort and another, I at once set to work to look about for any kind of employment for which I fancied I might be fitted. After answering many advertisements to no purpose, I one day happened upon one in The Times which rather stirred my curiosity. It stated that a gentleman of good position, who had occasion to travel in many parts of the world, would like to hear from a young man with considerable experience in motor driving. The applicant should not be over thirty, and it was essential that he should be a gentleman and well educated, with a knowledge of foreign languages if possible; also that he should be thoroughly trustworthy and possessed of initiative. The salary would be a very liberal one.