Thursday, 5 January 2012

The Writing of Bushfire





This terrifying thriller of greed and deceit tells the tale of Cumbrian undercover detective, William Miller Boyd, working alongside a determined female British Intelligence officer, Antonia Harston-Browne; Hector, an American drug-busting legend, and a couple of Portuguese detectives - Raphael and Gordinho - as they battle against globally organised crime syndicates. As the story develops, they are unaware that some amongst them have different plans... Private and personal revenge...

As they gather for a crime conference in Lisbon, Boyd and Antonia travel to Glasgow airport for their flight but stop of at Gare Loch, near the Faslane Naval Base, Scotland, where Boyd is keen to show off a Trident nuclear submarine which was made in Barrow In Furness, Cumbria.
However, an assault from the beaches is taking place. The demonstrators are trying to prevent the vessel from making the high seas.

                                                

Canoes and dinghies attack the submarine which is protected by
the Ministry of Defence Police. But at the Naval base, protesters are attacking the perimeter fence and the police are responding.

 Eventually, the submarine makes the oceans and dives to the deep.


and Boyd and Antonia fly to Lisbon where they meet new friends at their conference.

                                                           
But the stigma of 'Racism' rises its ugly head at the same time a bushfire tears through Portugal