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Hector Garrido (1928-2020), ''The Ecstasy Connection'' (The Baroness #1) by Paul Kenyon (aka Donald Moffitt), 1974 "A former Vogue and Elle cover model, the Baroness is a "long-legged beauty in her early thirties" who runs a model agency as a cover for her espionage missions. Her preferred weapon is the Bernadelli VB .25 caliber. She drinks martini cocktails, smokes the occasional joint, drives a red Porsche, throws lavish parties in her Rome mansion and enjoys fiery but casual sex with a series of handsome hunks, including suspected enemies she may well have to kill. Her jade green eyes, raven black hair and "explicit cheekbones" prove the perfect smokescreen. "There wasn't a line or shadow on her lovely face to show the deadly secrets that lay behind it." (Source) Quick fun fact: Hector Garrido did all the packaging art for the G. I. Joe toys in the 1980s, art I was well acquainted with as a wee lad who was really into ninjas and dug Storm Shadow and Snake-Eyes (but not so much the military propaganda masquerading as a toy line they were associated with).

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Insiders from within Leicester's textile industry say that the demand for cheap clothes was fuelling fraudulent activity within the city. With factories unable to make a profit from the low prices demanded by retailers, many suppliers were turning to VAT fraud. Andrew Bridgen, Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire, said it was "absolutely endemic in huge swathes of the city". "There are gangs of factory owners going around in brand new four-wheel drives and there are very, very poor exploited workers who are actually living in fear in the city, and you can feel it on the street," he said. Some firms involved in money laundering have supplied Boohoo and Select Fashion. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), in a statement, said: "In the last year HMRC has completed 25 separate investigations into the VAT affairs of businesses in the textile trade in Leicester and, in so doing, recovered more than £2m of tax that would otherwise have been lost."

Oliver Newlan & Paul Kenyon, 'Leicester textile firms 'involved in money laundering'', BBC

THE BARONESS series of novels, by Paul Kenyon: The Ecstasy Connection; Diamonds Are For Dying; Death Is a Ruby Light; Hard-core Murder; Operation Doomsday; Sonic Slave; Flicker of Doom; Black Gold.

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