Second Chance

by Terry Green

This is the story of an English village which like so many villages is losing its identity, and all the component parts which make it up as a whole are suffering. The younger residents are leaving, due to their inability to afford local houses as prices rise steeply due to the influx of southerners buying second homes. Due to the dwindling population the local public house may not survive. A local farmer is facing hardship and the village police officer s career has stalled, due to no fault of his own.  
The central character in this story is Jack, a thirteen year old boy who is basically a good person but this could change if he falls in with the wrong company. Jack and his parents have recently moved to the village, but are considered to be outsiders . In an attempt to fit in Jack befriends a local tearaway Rob who has no respect for people or property. Jack s very future is threatened due to his developing bad behaviour.  
Then, on a rainy evening, a mysterious stranger makes an appearance at the public house. Could things change for the better? Only time will tell.

168 pages, Paperback

Published October 28, 2020

About the author

Many of you may know me as "Cashier Number Three!" And over the last twenty years or so around 25 million shoppers every month heard me summoning them from the queue in banks, shops and post offices everywhere.

My career has taken some interesting twists and turns - from cars to queues- cellular phones to celebrity chefs.

But I needed something more which is why I turned to a life of crime.

A reader commented that my first business book, You're Next, read like a thriller. That got me thinking. Could I write an entertaining, compelling series of novels set against the background of my career? Oh sure, there would have to be lies, fraud and murder, along with some delicious scandal and just a touch of romantic intrigue - in short, all the elements you'd expect in a compelling, page-turning thriller.

So here, from my base, on the western edge of Dartmoor, in delightful Devon, I'm plotting the career of Jake Elderfield. I hope you can join me on the journey.