Final Toll
By Roger Ormerod
The day Johnny Parfitt is released from prison, a truck driver offers him a lift. Johnny used to be a driver – until Den talked him into stealing a wagon load of scotch. The plan went disastrously wrong and only Johnny was caught, leaving Den free to move into his home and in with Laura. So when Johnny discovers that the truck is carrying twenty tons of whisky, he steals the rig and heads for Den, crossing the deserted Prescott’s Bridge. The narrow suspension bridge buckles under the weight of the truck and Johnny is trapped, hanging in mid-air between two cliffs, buffeted by the raging storm. Engineer Colin Marson is called in to direct an impossible rescue. Battling the elements, local bureaucrats and his own misgivings, can he get Johnny out alive before the bridge plummets into the swelling river? ‘Final Toll’ is an full throttle thriller that will keep readers guess until the last page.
