The Long Drop

by Eva Hudson

A Degrees of Separation short story from the winner of the inaugural Lucy Cavendish prize.

When Karen Fishburne flags down a unregistered taxi she doesn't consider for a moment whether or not she can trust the man behind the wheel. Her mind is on other things - she wants to get where she's going as fast as possible and do what she has to do before her nerve fails.

The taxi driver has other ideas

Kindle Edition

First published June 7, 2012

About the author

Eva Hudson was born and raised in south London. Before taking up writing seriously at the age of 43, Eva worked as a local government officer, singer, dotcom entrepreneur, portrait artist, web designer, project manager and content editor.

In 2011 her first novel, The Loyal Servant, won the inaugural Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize from Cambridge University. The book was also shortlisted for UK TV's People's Novelist Competition.

In 2013, Eva received a terminal cancer diagnosis and this spurred her on to write the book she always wanted to read, a female Jack Reacher adventure. She created Ingrid Skyberg, an FBI agent working out the US embassy in London who's tenacious, resilient and determined, qualities Eva herself had in abundance as she went through treatment. Before she died in 2015, Eva had published four Skyberg books. She also left an unfinished manuscript and notes for future adventures with her partner and editor Jo Monroe who continues to write the series.

For more information, visit evahudson.com and follow Eva on Twitter @Eva_Hudson.