High stakes comedy thriller in which an extremly accurate stock market forecasting device is lost and found in Dorset, England. . But by the wrong people. The villagers of Swingle Matravers who are determined to sell it to the highest bidder. The French who created the device, the British, the Americans and South Africans all want to get their hands on it for themselves. But so do the Bharunians a backward african country that stole it from the French and then lost it whilst their Embassy driver was on a secret errand visiting Dorset.
The security services of some of the most powerful countries in the world descend on the Dorset village of Swingle Matravers trying to find the device and mayhem ensues. But will the local Committee for Wealth (staffed by villagers) let them have it or succeed in selling it to the highest bidder? Playing one country off against another. A startling twist ending to the story surprises everybody including the villagers themselves.
The story starts as the villagers on a wild and windy night are trying to emulate their smuggling ancestors by plundering a coastal vessel, tramp steamer, that is stranded on Dancing Ledge on a wild and windy night in the millenium year 2000. Thwarting the local coastguard in the process.
Join the story as they make their perilous journey in a Land Rover along the unmade grass and rock track, as they career along in the pitch darkness and pouring rain towards Dancing Ledge. An actual location on the coast line of Dorset.
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Lottery Mania, available here, introduced the villagers and this story continues the comic saga of ther adventures. Cocking a snook at the wider world and feathering their own nests in the process. Or trying to.
Sit back, draw the curtains and read about their continued battle against authority and law and order in this new David versus Goliath tale of robbing the rich to help the poor. Filling their own money chests into the bargain! Buy now and enjoy!
High stakes comedy thriller in which an extremly accurate stock market forecasting device is lost and found in Dorset, England. . But by the wrong people. The villagers of Swingle Matravers who are determined to sell it to the highest bidder. The French who created the device, the British, the Americans and South Africans all want to get their hands on it for themselves. But so do the Bharunians a backward african country that stole it from the French and then lost it whilst their Embassy driver was on a secret errand visiting Dorset.
The security services of some of the most powerful countries in the world descend on the Dorset village of Swingle Matravers trying to find the device and mayhem ensues. But will the local Committee for Wealth (staffed by villagers) let them have it or succeed in selling it to the highest bidder? Playing one country off against another. A startling twist ending to the story surprises everybody including the villagers themselves.
The story starts as the villagers on a wild and windy night are trying to emulate their smuggling ancestors by plundering a coastal vessel, tramp steamer, that is stranded on Dancing Ledge on a wild and windy night in the millenium year 2000. Thwarting the local coastguard in the process.
Join the story as they make their perilous journey in a Land Rover along the unmade grass and rock track, as they career along in the pitch darkness and pouring rain towards Dancing Ledge. An actual location on the coast line of Dorset.
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Lottery Mania, available here, introduced the villagers and this story continues the comic saga of ther adventures. Cocking a snook at the wider world and feathering their own nests in the process. Or trying to.
Sit back, draw the curtains and read about their continued battle against authority and law and order in this new David versus Goliath tale of robbing the rich to help the poor. Filling their own money chests into the bargain! Buy now and enjoy!
Dancing Ledge (Swingle Matravers, #2)
Dancing Ledge (Swingle Matravers, #2)
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940156483556 |
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| Publisher: | Brian George |
| Publication date: | 03/06/2019 |
| Series: | Swingle Matravers |
| Sold by: | Draft2Digital |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 407 KB |