THE PERFECT CARRIER

1972

From ATA page:

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Chloe Grant is young, pretty and the wife of a police officer, a perfect carrier for drug-smuggling--or so it seems to the notorious Chinese Green  Dragon Syndicate. But unfortunately for Chloe, she is not the innocent she seems and soon learns of their scheme when she boards the SS Maruval Bay at Singapore. As the liner steams through the South China Sea to Borneo, Chloe's knowledge puts her in deadly danger her life. For on board are ruthless gangsters from the Syndicate, prepared to kill to order without qualm, and also a band of fanatical Communists who see in her a threat to their plans.

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From blurb:

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KILLED TO ORDER . . .

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He went forward until he was within a few feet of her. Now. He hesitated. A flash of lightning hit the deck and, stiffening, he took a step back. The thunder came nearer, rumbled, rolled, grumbling as it moved away again. He had never killed a man before, nor a woman. She had done him no harm. The baby would be left motherless.

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"Go on." He had not known that Kwan was behind him until he heard that barely audible hiss. "It's her life or yours."

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From rear cover of  Five Days Till Noon and The Foam on the River:

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Her second novel, The Perfect Carrier, is an enormously ingenious story of drug smuggling in the South China Sea. What begins more or less as an amusing game to the apparently scatter-brained heroine becomes a matter of life and death as she is ruthlessly harried by criminals who will kill without a qualm in the interests of their politics or their pockets. Again the book is marked by the author's impressively skilful evocation of a strange and exotic atmosphere.

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