The Price of Silence

Gordon Jackson comes out of prison with the intention of living an honest life, but for an ex-con, there aren't many opportunities. After being fired from several jobs, he changes his name by deed poll and starts over again at a real estate agency run by Llewellyn Rees. He's doing well, with a budding romantic relationship with June Thornburn, and increased responsibilities in the office, but there are flaws. Rees' wife, Maya Koumani, is bored, and keeps trying to get Jackson interested, despite his lack of interest, and a fellow ex-con, Sam Kydd, starts to blackmail him.

It's a good story, but there's something off and occasionally abrupt in the way editor Douglas Myers puts things together.; certainly there's a bit of idiot plotting in it; Jackson could simply come clean with Rees at any point, but his reluctance to do so is understandable. Still, the sloppiness of the story and the way it's all resolved seems o be pulled out nowhere for the convenience of ending it.