S is for Sabotage
My trusty Collins dictionary definition of Sabotage:
1. n the deliberate
destruction, disruption, or damage of equipment, a public service, etc as by
enemy agents, dissatisfied employees, etc. 2. v. any similar action to destroy, or disrupt,, esp. by secret
means. From saboteur to spoil through
clumsiness.
In my contemporary mystery, Take Me Now the plot
centres on Nairn Malcolm’s Extreme Adventure sports businesses. Someone has
been sabotaging him good style. At the outset of the novel, he has been
involved in a mysterious motorbike accident and is pretty beaten up- so much so
that he cannot do the usual travelling needed to run his various business
concerns.
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Normally a man of action, Nairn now sports a couple of
plaster casts on left arm and left leg and he has a good number of broken ribs,
but his worst injury is the temporary concussion at the beginning of the story.
He is unable to ferry himself via his small floatplane from his Scottish island
castle base to Glasgow to pick up his jet from Glasgow before travelling on to
his warehouses and offices in London. Neither can he use his catamaran for the
transport to Glasgow
if the weather is ‘floatplane’ unfavourable. He needs someone to help transport
him.
Of course, in the nature of such injuries and arrogant men he
also finds he cannot conduct his usual office tasks as overall manager of his
businesses and needs a general office aid to help him on a temporary basis.
In steps the highly competent Aela Cameron, a lass from Vancouver, Canada.
Aela has current licences for almost all of his vehicular toys, having been
trained from her teens to fly light aircraft and especially floatplanes- her
uncle having a hire business in and around Vancouver. She is the perfect person for the
temporary job since she has also worked in her uncle’s office whilst gaining
her Business Degree.
Published by The Wild Rose Press it is a sensual romp as
Aela ferrets out the saboteur who has been harming both Nairn and his business.
While writing this ‘tongue in cheek’ version of my
contemporary ‘Highland Hero’ I was also able to have Aela fly Nairn to some
spectacular world locations which I was desperate to write about. As the pair
fly from place to place they make very short stops in London, Barcelona,
Rotterdam, Muscat in Oman, Paris, Tallinn in Estonia, The Caribbean and New
York. Yes, it’s that kind of fast paced from one location to the next. Of all
of the places mentioned in the novel there are only two locations I have never
been to myself. I leave the reader to work out which they might be.
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| Barcelona |
At my editor’s suggestion, I added more details of the
budding romance (at least three revisions) making it a much more sensual read, and
she suggested more European locations since she believed many US readers like
to read of Continental European places. At that point, I had only written about
Barcelona; I
then added the other locations.
If you like a humorous 'take off' of the wounded Highland
Hero, then this is for you!
Take Me Now
TWRP http://bit.ly/WyaGGi
Waterstones http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/nancy+jardine/take+me+now+28ebook29/9407710/
W.H. Smith
Youtube trailer http://youtu.be/stDC4Yhm2r0
Slainthe!
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