Game Ten

by James Long

In a well-guarded scrap-yard, fifty miles from London, a crushed car marks the last resting place of British democracy – in its boot the box that gives the game away.

In a Californian desert, Freedom’s Friends, the world’s most powerful and secret club, is celebrating another victory – the fixing of a British election.

Battle-hardened TV reporter Claire Merrick is the point of collision. When she gets too close to the truth buried in the scrap-yard, she finds herself turning from hunter to hunted – with a price on her head and on her heels the police, the public and the killers who protect the sinister games of Freedom’s Friends.

330 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 1994

About the author

Aka Will Davenport

James Long was a BBC TV news correspondent until the end of the 1980s. After two years starting and running an international TV station out of Zurich, he returned to England to concentrate on writing, which had always been his first love. He wrote four thrillers, then went back to a story he had begun many years earlier and which grew into Ferney. The book was originally born from his disappointment at being unable to buy a derelict cottage he had found near the village of Penselwood and that house became the centre of the story. Many more novels followed, including two written under the pseudonym 'Will Davenport.' He moved into historical non-fiction in 2007 with The Plot against Pepys, co-written with his oldest son, Ben. Since then, he has co-written a play with his middle son, Harry. He lives with his wife, Annie and daughter Matilda in Totnes, Devon. His interests range from archaeology to motor racing. He is actively involved in the creative writing charity, the Arvon Foundation and tutors from time to time on Arvon courses. He is also a patron and adviser to the Dartington Literary Festival, 'Ways with Words.'