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Lesser Expectations
Within one week of entering his own name into the Google search engine on the Internet, and getting in touch with a website, Thomas Job Mitchell and Lauren Ross his partner, are experiencing odd and unsettling things happening around their family. Things come to a head when they receive a telephone call asking them to attend a meeting in Edinburgh. At the meeting Tom learns that his father, reported killed in action in WW2 was not killed and has just died.
At the reading of his father's will, Tom learns that 98% of his father's business, "Windmill Developments", a multi-billion-dollar company, has been left to him.
To add to Tom's bewilderment, he learns he has a half-brother, Junior, a serial killer, who has fled to Brazil to escape several murder charges. When the details of his father's Will are revealed to Junior Mitchell, he learns of this half-brother. To compound his shock at this revelation he discovers his father has disowned him in favour of this newly-discovered son, and has left everything to the half-brother...
Junior's mentor in Brazil is a powerful man, Lord Bradscot, who is the owner of a snuff film studio and whose only interest in Junior Mitchell is relieving him of the expected fortune.Both men are outraged when they learn the fortune has gone to the newly revealed half-brother. However, because of a clause common in high value Wills, Junior has a month to kill his half-brother and claim the fortune.Junior Mitchell and all the forces at his command have one month to kill Thomas Job Mitchell. Thomas Job Mitchell has to try and survive that month!
At the reading of his father's will, Tom learns that 98% of his father's business, "Windmill Developments", a multi-billion-dollar company, has been left to him.
To add to Tom's bewilderment, he learns he has a half-brother, Junior, a serial killer, who has fled to Brazil to escape several murder charges. When the details of his father's Will are revealed to Junior Mitchell, he learns of this half-brother. To compound his shock at this revelation he discovers his father has disowned him in favour of this newly-discovered son, and has left everything to the half-brother...
Junior's mentor in Brazil is a powerful man, Lord Bradscot, who is the owner of a snuff film studio and whose only interest in Junior Mitchell is relieving him of the expected fortune.Both men are outraged when they learn the fortune has gone to the newly revealed half-brother. However, because of a clause common in high value Wills, Junior has a month to kill his half-brother and claim the fortune.Junior Mitchell and all the forces at his command have one month to kill Thomas Job Mitchell. Thomas Job Mitchell has to try and survive that month!
538 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 18, 2018
About the author
Kenneth J. Matthews
5 books1 followerKenneth J Matthews is a graduate MA of screenwriting, having recently turned to writing novels. His formative years (9-15 years of age) were spent at the Duke of Yorks Royal Military School in Dover, Kent, UK.
At the age of sixteen he was a small time rock-n-roll star in a band called Johnny and the Falcons, being invited to join a group called Dean Ford and the Gaylords in Glasgow, who later went on to become “Marmalade”. This was an offer he declined when other members of his group were not offered a place. This is cause for regret on his part to this day…
Since the heady days of the 1960’s, his jobs have been many and varied. From being a ‘Tunnel Tiger’ working on the development of a Hydro-electric power station at Loch Awe in Scotland, UK, to being a coordinator at a College for Further Education.
At the end of his musical career, he became a bit-part, and character actor in film and television, before turning his hand to writing novels.
His books reflect his diverse experience of life, they are:
Lesser Expectations
The Santa Stone
One Man’s Fault
The Beholden
Lethal Transmission
At the age of sixteen he was a small time rock-n-roll star in a band called Johnny and the Falcons, being invited to join a group called Dean Ford and the Gaylords in Glasgow, who later went on to become “Marmalade”. This was an offer he declined when other members of his group were not offered a place. This is cause for regret on his part to this day…
Since the heady days of the 1960’s, his jobs have been many and varied. From being a ‘Tunnel Tiger’ working on the development of a Hydro-electric power station at Loch Awe in Scotland, UK, to being a coordinator at a College for Further Education.
At the end of his musical career, he became a bit-part, and character actor in film and television, before turning his hand to writing novels.
His books reflect his diverse experience of life, they are:
Lesser Expectations
The Santa Stone
One Man’s Fault
The Beholden
Lethal Transmission
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