Why a Booktrail?
2025: One city, one day, and a battle of wills reaches boiling point
One London Day
What you need to know before your trail
Joseph Severin, a respectable North London businessman, has a lucrative side job. He’s doing the books, old school (because these days the only trail you can’t trace is a paper one) for a rogue MI5 outfit, the Shadows, headed by psychopathic Sebastien. However, when the game is rumbled, Sebastien sends hitman Mr Phipps to kill Severin and get those books back. The spider web of collateral damage will be extensive, taking in Lottie, for whom Severin has developed a sudden, wild passion; Sonya, a Russian escort with a desperate deadline; and at MI5, the ambitious Ellerby, who has them all in her sights.
It’s the hottest summer in fifty years and in the shadows, a deadly domino effect is about to spill out into the harsh light of day.
Travel Guide
London
The author says:
I lived for many years in Finchley – and know that Tesco well! I’ve lunched at the Athenaeum (glorious!), and lost count of the times I’ve run over Parliament Hill (I went to school in Hampstead). I’ve drunk on the terrace of the Union Tavern (in front of which I was forced to fall into the Grand Union Canal, shooting an episode of ‘The Bill’). I adore the Coach and Horses, partly because it is in Soho where I was a motorcycle messenger for a year before I went to drama school. It was still Sleaze City then – and what an eye-opener for this innocent North London schoolboy! It was while doing that job that I developed my love of maps and routes because your earnings depended on how fast you got about town. Armed with a battered A-Z, I zipped about the city, dodging taxis that seemed hell-bent on killing me! And though I’ve never lived in the Portobello Market area I’ve always enjoyed venturing there. Especially on a hot summer’s night. Oh, the possibilities!
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Witch Trial
Destination/location: London Author/guide: Chris Humphreys Departure Time: 2025
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