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Dancing Ledge: Treasure Hunt.

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COMEDY THRILLER. A RACE TO WIN A FORTUNE. A HIGHLY ACCURATE STOCK MARKET FORECASTING DEVICE WORTH BILLIONS GOES MISSING AND IS FOUND BY THE VILLAGERS OF SWINGLE MATRAVERS WHO TRY TO SELL IT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. BUT WILL THE SECURITY SERVICES OF SEVERAL POWERFUL WESTERN COUNTRIES ALLOW THEM TO DO THIS? OR WILL ONE OF THESE COUNTRIES WIN THE DAY, USING THE DEVICE TO BOOST THEIR OWN CASH-STRAPPED ECONOMIES?

The villagers of Swingle Matravers, Dorset, England on returning in the early hours of the morning from a partly successful smuggling jaunt to a shipwreck on Dancing Ledge, (a real place on the coast of Dorset), discover a parcel containing a highly accurate secret stock market forecasting device worth Billions to the country that owns it due to its extreme accuracy in operation. The device originally French, and stolen from it by the African state of Bharun. The device is wanted by the British, the Americans, the Bharunians larger neighbours the South Africans, and of course the French themselves. They all desperately want the device and will stop at nothing to get it. The Bharunians and the security services of all these countries descend upon the picturesque rural village of Swingle Matravers some 6 miles from the sea and the Dorset coast, to try and wrest the secret device from the villagers Committee for Wealth. The villagers however are well organized and are determined not to give up without a fight. As a result, absolute mayhem ensues! A real David versus Goliath fight. Dancing Ledge, the second in the trilogy of stories featuring the nare do well villagers to cock a snook at the Western powers. Will they succeed? Or will all the security sophistication of the powerful Western world, plus the Bharunians and the primeval elements of wind and waves on Dancing Ledge in the final chapter, beat them in the end? The villagers of Swingle. Ordinary people pitting themselves against the world. Buy the book now to see if they succeed against all the odds!

The first LOTTERY MANIA, and featuring the villagers of Swingle Matravers in all their glory, is fully available here and on other platforms. Stories for all the family to enjoy. The third Midnight on the 18th Hole is available here. Authors Both real and fictional locations are used. No reference to any person living or dead is assumed or attempted. The moral right of the author is asserted. Brian George Nottingham. England. 6th November 2020

191 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 5, 2019

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