A Very Big Bang
By Philip McCutchan
The London underground system was a hive of activity at all times. So, when Tom Casey informs Superintendent Simon Shard that four men are planning on blowing up large sections of the underground, Shard has ten days to foil the attempt.
Should he ask the Prime Minister to shut down the entire underground. Would this cause mass panic?
Shard needed more information, but Casey had an assignation in York. It was an important assignation with a very beautiful young woman. This was to be his undoing. Any further information Casey had would go with him into the River Thames. There was going to be a very big bang…
As Casey never made it to his debriefing appointment with Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Shard, Shard had to pick up the pitifully slender thread of clues himself. Casey’s trail took him from London to Ireland, then to parts of York not normally shown to the tourists, over the Pennines and, inevitably, back to London and into the Underground system where a particularly lethal device waited to bring about the point of no return for London’s commuting millions.
With the London underground running as normal and with the potential date approaching fast, Shard needs to think … and think fast. Where would they plant the explosives? If he could figure this out, he just might be able to foil their plans.
Philip McCutchan grew up in the naval atmosphere of Portsmouth Dockyard and developed a lifetime’s interest in the sea. Military history was an early interest of his, resulting in several fiction books about the British Army and its campaigns, especially in the last 150 years. He served throughout WWII in a variety of ships, including the cruiser Vindictive, the ocean boarding vessel Largs, and the escort carrier Ravager, ending the war as a lieutenant, RNVR.
