Slave Trader

by David Chilcott

When John McBride, watercolour artist and ex-SAS Captain visits the English borderland, he witnesses a road accident where a Ford Transit skids on ice, and disappears down a tree covered ravine. He immediately stops hi car and rushes back down the road and scrambles down the ravine. As he had approached he had heard a huge bang and screaming. The van has gone front first into a mature tree. On what remains of the bonnet, the driver has gone through the windscreen and hit the tree with his head. The man is dead, but some one is in the cargo area. McBride pulls open the door and inside are two teenage girls, one with a broken arm. He helps them out and gets them up to his car, intent on getting them to his car. He copies down the GPS position, but cannot get a signal for his mobile phone. He drives off to Carlisle, and eventually gets a phone signal. He phones for an ambulance, and then the police to report the accident. At the hospital, the girls disappear into the accident room, and McBrides waits outside. A plainclothes policeman introduces himself. The ambulance got to the crash site, and the dead driver has disappeared. Also the police find that the van has false numberplate. McBride expects that the case will end up in the files, another no action item. He decides he will try and solve the matter himself.

Genres: Thriller, Mystery

82 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 18, 2019

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a novella - a shorter story but well written and interesting. Didn't want to put it down till I found out what was going on. Recommended. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read and review this story.

[Rick Molitor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short thriller

I found this to be a pretty good thriller. It was not a very long story but there was a good bit of action in it and it moved along at a good pace. John is excellent and believable character. It was a good read.

[Kirk Weikart · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are multiple books in this series. This is a novella; I am not sue about others in the series. However, the author provides only scant background for the main characters. It is impossible to have a full perspective on the characters. McBride is former military, but that is about all that is revealed.

The title of the book gives away the mysterious crime that the author tries to cloak.

Overall, the book lacks description, depth and intensity.