Dead Run: Caught Between the Law and the Sea
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As with much we see on television today, this book contains mature themes. It also speaks of a past suicide.
Tom Walton, divorced solicitor, uses money from his clients' bank account, desperate to keep the taxman at bay. It might have worked if book-keeper, Dorothy Brown, had been less efficient. facing her accusation, Walton sees prison looming, but his anarchic girlfriend, Jenny Lindt, proposes an alternative.
Resourceful, attractive, hard-up, young Jenny saw Walton as her stepping-stone from the gutter, and isn't about to let this new turn of events stand in her way. Scarred by the events of her adolescence, and by her sister's suicide, she finds relationships hard - except where they are relationships of a financial nature. "Take the money and run," she says.
As with much we see on television today, this book contains mature themes. It also speaks of a past suicide.
Encouraged by her, Walton acts quickly to persuade Eddie Woo - casino owner and gangland boss - to cash a bank draft for the rest of the money in the Client's Account.
But before Walton and Lindt have even left the country, Woo discovers that he is nearly three hundred thousand pounds out of pocket. Woo joins Detective Sergeant Burbidge in a hunt for the two criminals. Burbidge's jurisdiction ends with the south coast of England but Woo's drug-dealing network spreads all the way to the Caribbean, where the fugitives are headed.
Walton grew up on the East Coast and raced yachts at Law School. He and Jenny steal a yacht and slip quietly away from England's shores, stopping briefly in Jersey to transfer their stolen money to a Caribbean tax haven. But the price Jenny pays Jersey banker, Paul Davies, is more than Tom Walton can stomach.
Affected by dramatic events that happen later in their voyage, Jenny puts another's life before her own for once. From here the hunt takes the couple to the coral strewn 'Caicos Bank' where their yacht weaves amongst the reefs desperately trying to avoid the implacable Eddie Woo.
The final action takes place on Ambergris Cay, a barren dessert-island, where Woo and Walton come face to face for the last time. And Jenny has to decide if she really wants to share her life with this criminal lawyer.
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About the author
Peter Edington is a Scottish-born author and lifelong sailor. After years working in law and education, he swapped courtrooms for the open sea, building his own yacht and sailing across the Atlantic and Caribbean and on to Australia.
His thrillers blend seafaring realism with human drama, drawing on his legal background and his passion for adventure. Peter’s writing has been featured in national newspapers and on BBC broadcasts. He now lives in Australia, still writing and still sailing whenever he can.
