PC John Carlyle is up in Yorkshire helping to monitor the Miners’
Strike. Sergeant Ross has taken him and PC Dom Silver out into a remote
field in the middle of the night to guard the body of an elderly woman
who had been killed by someone.
The next morning, Silver offers Carlyle some amphetamine to help him
make it through the vigil, but Carlyle refuses the offer. Moments later
they are surprised by a woman journalist, Fran Mullin, who quickly
informs the pair of whom the victim was. She was a well known
environmentalist. Mullin is put in her place a few moments later when
Inspector Holt arrives on the scene with Sergeant Ross. Carlyle wonders
about the third man with the other two, who is not introduced to them.
It doesn’t take long for Mullin to determine that the third person is
from MI5. Why is MI5 involved? She asks her boyfriend, Inspector Holt,
after he has arrested a local lad for the murder.
In this novella, which is a prequel to the series, author James Craig
introduces the reader to John Carlyle, who will be the main protagonist
in the series. The concluding sentence will be the introduction to the
first book in the series. Although written after the first book in the
series, it sets the stage for the series. There is another prequel
following this one. A very quick read.
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