The Threesome

By Stephen Leather

Be careful what you wish for because one day you might get it. That's what Jimmy discovered when he started lusting after a sexy threesome with his lovely wife Laura. But when he flies with her to Thailand to make his fantasy come true, his life changes for ever.

The Threesome is just under 10,000 words - about 30 pages, perfect for when you have half an hour to spare.

Stephen Leather is the author of Private Dancer, the best-selling cult novel about the Bangkok bar scene. He is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers and is published in more than twenty languages. He was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shovelled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing full time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series, and two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were turned into movies. His eBook The Basement topped the Kindle charts in the US and the UK. You can find out more from his website, www.stephenleather.com.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen Leather
• Release date: Nov 25, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301569427

Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an eBook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan "Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful eBook authors and his eBooks have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. He has sold more than a million eBooks and was voted by The Bookseller magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK publishing world. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series and two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website www.stephenleather.com

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THE THREESOME

Stephen Leather

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There’s an old Chinese proverb that goes something like ‘Be careful what you wish for because you might get it.’ I never really understood that because I always figured that if you got what you wished for then you’d be happy. Suppose you wished that you’d win the lottery and you did and you got five million quid, you’d be happy as a pig in shit, right? Or you’re a cyclist like that Bradley Wiggins guy and you wished that you’d win the Tour De France and you finally did, then that’s your dream coming true. But I got my wish and it ruined my life. Seriously. I lost my wife, I lost my house, and I lost my job. I’m on the dole and living back with my parents, which for a twenty-five-year old is pretty much as bad as it gets. And what did I wish for? A threesome. That’s all. I just wanted a threesome and I got what I wanted and I ruined my life.

Now don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t a random threesome that I was looking for. For a start I’m married, or at least I was married when I wanted the threesome. And I wanted my wife to be there. That was the plan. Me, my wife, and another girl. At the time it didn’t seem to be asking for much. I love my wife, she means everything to me, I just thought it might be fun to be in bed with her and another girl. It was a fantasy, that’s all. But the