A Chinese friend helped me realise that the fun could be had when you actually do get it. Sometimes getting what you ask for is the last thing you really want!
The story goes something like...
Jessica and Josie had been out in Ten Acre Wood with the
lads and came back coated with mud, and the hosing down was caught on a mobile
phone and went viral on the net. Josie was PA to Bill Jardine and Jessica was Daddy’s girl and daddy was rich,
opinionated and had more than a fair share of enemies, but that was business. She
was his weak spot and he knew it, getting her would get to him. The first
attempt fails, and the watchers are put on alert.
The girls were told to take a break, but it’s not easy to
get lost, unless someone really want’s you out of the way and a second attempt
succeeds. Lifted off an isolated beach and spirited away, the recovery
instructions come in via YouTube, and the visual clues in the videos are
analysed at the Grange and the results fed to the trackers.
Steel and Langhers are
on the trail; aiming to get one step ahead. The instructions are for delivery
men, but Langhers and Steel are collectors, and they’re out to get Jessica, find
her and bring her back, and Jardine’s parting words as they leave The Grange,
“if you need it call for back up!”
The trail takes them across the wild country astride the
England/Scotland Border; into the forests of Keilder and the cold deathlike
chill of a forest dawn. Where a hard cough on the still air could be a fox, or
a silenced weapon finding its mark. Back up would be useful, but the clock
ticks on, and the deadline may be closer than the reinforcements.
Starts Thursday 1st November...in National Novel Writing Month.
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