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Back The Nursery
Chapters (45)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Dedication
  4. Prologue
  5. Part One
  6. Chapter One
  7. Chapter Two
  8. Chapter Three
  9. Part Two
  10. Chapter Four
  11. Chapter Five
  12. Chapter Six
  13. Chapter Seven
  14. Chapter Eight
  15. Chapter Nine
  16. Part Three
  17. Chapter Ten
  18. Chapter Eleven
  19. Chapter Twelve
  20. Chapter Thirteen
  21. Chapter Fourteen
  22. Chapter Fifteen
  23. Chapter Sixteen
  24. Part Four
  25. Chapter Seventeen
  26. Chapter Eighteen
  27. Chapter Nineteen
  28. Chapter Twenty
  29. Chapter Twenty-One
  30. Chapter Twenty-Two
  31. Part Five
  32. Chapter Twenty-Three
  33. Chapter Twenty-Four
  34. Chapter Twenty-Five
  35. Chapter Twenty-Six
  36. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  37. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  38. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  39. Chapter Thirty
  40. Chapter Thirty-One
  41. Chapter Thirty-Two
  42. Part Six
  43. Chapter Thirty-Three
  44. Acknowledgements
  45. About the Author

I remembered something in the diary about Gigi’s class going to a puppet show at the museum this afternoon. I had felt bad about missing her first trip to see the dinosaurs.

‘You mean . . . We need to go?’

‘Very much so. I set the whole visit up.’

Duggers checked his watch. ‘You’d better leave now, Lex. The “We are Family” introductory meet and greet starts at ten a.m. at the Warehouse. You will be the Family Liaison for a group that will contain the three Pigs’ other halves. I’ll email you the info.’

I stood up.

Geraint pointed to my mobile phone. ‘Click on the latest email from me and your phone will download a WhatsApp group chat invite with a worm hidden inside. You just need to put in the targets’ numbers, get them to accept the invite and the worm will get to work. It will take twenty minutes or so to download everything off their phones and all future messages will automatically download to our server.’

‘Remember, Lex,’ said Hattie, ‘the quicker we find the Snake, the better the chance we have of Peng flying out of here in the comfort of her first-class cabin bed and not in a box in the hold.’

From what Frederick had said it was clear Tenebris were actively recruiting from our Security Services. Stalking potential targets, getting to know their weaknesses, understanding who they could bully or tempt into turning over sensitive information. Frederick can’t have been the first they approached – he was just the first who was working to bring them down. How many Snakes could be within the services right now, turning our own people against us and attacking us from within?

Tenebris were a formidable enemy. By incapacitating our Security Services they were putting the whole country at risk. We were vulnerable to not just terrorist attacks but information hacking, data mining and interference in our elections, our very government. Outside hostile forces could swoop down on our country, knowing we were running on a shell, that our Security Services were compromised, and they could wreak havoc not just with our safety but our everyday life. Tenebris had to be stopped. With so much at stake we couldn’t afford to fail.

Part Two

Part Two

Play

play, n.

1. Activity engaged in for enjoyment and recreation, especially by children.

2. The state of being active, operative, or effective.

Chapter Four

Chapter Four