Hexagon

by David Wishart

Jacko got to his feet. Still breathing heavily, he picked up the thing on the ground beside him. It was a comb, a square comb made of gold. ‘How did you know?’ he said quietly to Robbie. Then, when there was no ‘How did you know?’ Robbie backed away from the hate he saw in his brother’s face. ‘You sent it!’ Jacko grabbed the boar’s huge head by the snout and raised it. ‘Damn you! You’re responsible for all of it!’ Robbie’s mouth opened in denial. Then the truth of the words hit him. Jacko was right. He had sent it. He had sent it twice now. ‘If we meet again, brother,’ Jacko said softly, ‘I’ll kill you.’ * * * Three teenagers, Robbie and Jacko Ogilvy and their cousin Kat Lindsay, are caught up in a triangle of relationships which mirror those of their counterparts who lived over a thousand years before. If they are to survive, physically and as themselves, they must disrupt the pattern and break free of the vicious circle in which myth, magic and reality blur. A book for young adults, or for anyone who enjoyed the Alan Garner timeslip novels of the 1960s – with an added edge. The first in the Angus Books series.

165 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 18, 2011

About the author

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Historical crime writer David Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland. He studied Classics - Latin and Greek - at Edinburgh University and after graduation taught for four years in a secondary school.

He then retrained as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and worked abroad for eleven years, in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He returned to Scotland in 1990 and now lives with his family in Carnoustie, mixing writing with teaching EFL and study skills at Dundee University.

Reviews

[Steve Pillinger · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a washout, Wishart! I can only think this was an early literary adventure of his that he's forced on the public now that he's self-publishing his books. A badly-told kiddy story about sums it up. I won't be getting the sequel.