What You Ask For

Josie Burke and Jessica Spear finish a sweaty afternoon in Ten Acre Wood with the lads, and get a hosing down to get rid of the mud when they get back to The Grange. The moment is captured on a smartphone and the video hits YouTube, and the hits are rising.
Jessica is the new girl at the Grange, she's her Daddy's girl, and Daddy is rich, opinionated and with his share of enemies, but that was business.
She was his weak spot and he knew it, so did others, and when she disappears from an isolated road after a scene by the swimming pool at society party relationships become strained.
She had been lodged at The Grange for security, and it had made her vulnerable, but there was something not quite right about this, there was another thread to this web of intrigue that remained hidden. Jardine draws on his contacts and persuades Michael Spear to hand over Hoplite's newest hardware. Two unmanned UAV's begin to sweep the countryside around the last known location.
The videos from her captors are analysed by the technical staff and the results put out to the field agents. Steel and Josie are on the road, checking the locations when a breakthrough confirms they are in the right area, a shackled figure in a cottage by the sea on the Northumberland coast. One of Jessica's captors who broke the rules, then the trail goes cold until a weak signal from a fading mobile gives a target area. The trail takes them across the wild country astride the England/Scotland Border; on to the Northumberland coast and 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.

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What You Ask For

Josie Burke and Jessica Spear finish a sweaty afternoon in Ten Acre Wood with the lads, and get a hosing down to get rid of the mud when they get back to The Grange. The moment is captured on a smartphone and the video hits YouTube, and the hits are rising.
Jessica is the new girl at the Grange, she's her Daddy's girl, and Daddy is rich, opinionated and with his share of enemies, but that was business.
She was his weak spot and he knew it, so did others, and when she disappears from an isolated road after a scene by the swimming pool at society party relationships become strained.
She had been lodged at The Grange for security, and it had made her vulnerable, but there was something not quite right about this, there was another thread to this web of intrigue that remained hidden. Jardine draws on his contacts and persuades Michael Spear to hand over Hoplite's newest hardware. Two unmanned UAV's begin to sweep the countryside around the last known location.
The videos from her captors are analysed by the technical staff and the results put out to the field agents. Steel and Josie are on the road, checking the locations when a breakthrough confirms they are in the right area, a shackled figure in a cottage by the sea on the Northumberland coast. One of Jessica's captors who broke the rules, then the trail goes cold until a weak signal from a fading mobile gives a target area. The trail takes them across the wild country astride the England/Scotland Border; on to the Northumberland coast and 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.

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What You Ask For

What You Ask For

by Martyn Taylor
What You Ask For

What You Ask For

by Martyn Taylor

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Josie Burke and Jessica Spear finish a sweaty afternoon in Ten Acre Wood with the lads, and get a hosing down to get rid of the mud when they get back to The Grange. The moment is captured on a smartphone and the video hits YouTube, and the hits are rising.
Jessica is the new girl at the Grange, she's her Daddy's girl, and Daddy is rich, opinionated and with his share of enemies, but that was business.
She was his weak spot and he knew it, so did others, and when she disappears from an isolated road after a scene by the swimming pool at society party relationships become strained.
She had been lodged at The Grange for security, and it had made her vulnerable, but there was something not quite right about this, there was another thread to this web of intrigue that remained hidden. Jardine draws on his contacts and persuades Michael Spear to hand over Hoplite's newest hardware. Two unmanned UAV's begin to sweep the countryside around the last known location.
The videos from her captors are analysed by the technical staff and the results put out to the field agents. Steel and Josie are on the road, checking the locations when a breakthrough confirms they are in the right area, a shackled figure in a cottage by the sea on the Northumberland coast. One of Jessica's captors who broke the rules, then the trail goes cold until a weak signal from a fading mobile gives a target area. The trail takes them across the wild country astride the England/Scotland Border; on to the Northumberland coast and 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.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940046381832
Publisher: Martyn Taylor
Publication date: 11/02/2012
Series: The Grange
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 363 KB

About the Author

Yorkshire born, in Sheffield, now living in Rotherham.
Married to Anne, and living in a quirky house with a lot of stairs and an enormous amount of books.

Started writing more years ago than I want to remember, inspired by Ian Fleming, John Buchan, Alistair Maclean and Jack Higgins. Working in longhand, by typewriter and then with an old laptop and a printer. “One day I’m going to write a novel” arrived and in August 2002 became “Today’s the day!" A beginning, an end and the urge to write. The result was ICELINE, a thriller about abduction, smuggling and dodgy diving in Western Scotland.

CONTROL:ESCAPE is the second novel about Steel and the characters at The Grange, revealing more of the place and the people who pass through its doors. Both now published here at Smashwords. There will be more!

WHAT YOU ASK FOR was the Nanowrimo entry for 2012; reaching the 50,000 word target in 29 days and carrying on to finish the story. Currently undergoing proof-reading and editing prior to submitting it for the Premium catalogue here at Smashwords.

The fourth novel in The Grange series THE OBEDIENCE OF FOOLS draws its name from a quotation by Douglas Bader and weaves its way around the Urban myth of the Strategic Steam Reserve.

Fascinated by the human stories behind history, the intmate aspects of great events. Myths and legends, folklore and intrigued by urban myths.

I enjoy a film with a good story, Matrix (all three parts), V for Vendetta – the final scene outside parliament with the masked crowds; Dambusters; Where Eagles Dare – Richard Burton on the radio with “Broadsword calling Danny Boy”

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