Colin Fenton and his wife run a computer-software company, but only Colin knows that the business is £10,000 in debt. When a chance meeting in a pub leads him to an offer that he thinks will quickly and easily solve all of his problems, he accepts. But he loses the gamble and subsequently his identity, leaving his wife to try to prove whether or not he is officially dead.
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CHAPTER 14: THE CHASE
Julie and Mark were driving to London. Linda was preparing the suitcase to leave. They’ll use their personal passports. Before leaving, she drive to Red Lion to meet Frankie for the money.
At 6 she was ready to leave and the owner was there to take the keys. Mark and Julie arrived when she was putting her suitcase in the van. Linda didn’t know that someone was following her at the beginning but when she arrives at the houtle she worried about it. She noticed John that was time to leave. They drove to the Port of Dover and the volvo was behind they. The van stopped and someone fired a gun. Mark listened the sound of a gun fired but he didn’t realized that that gun
touch Julie. Mark jumped out the car and start fighting eth John. John hit Mark with the gun and he
became unconscious. Linda and John left to france.
Mark woke up at the hospital, he feel tired. He asked for Julie and she was fine.
Mark discovered that a motorcyclist find them in the road unconscious. When they feel better, a
police had visited them. MArk thell the history of Colin and Bentleys. They believe him because they
discovered that the robbery was did it for an “inside job” because the skylight was destroyed from
the inside and there were not footprints in the roof. The jewellery had been removed before the
glass had been smashed. They connect the robbery with John but it will be a great deal to find the
Bentley’s.
CHAPTER 15: OFFICIALLY DEAD
Julie spend 10 days in the hospital. She decided that MArk will look after her company's financial
records. They become close friends. They have a dinner outside Bath to talk about the company. He
purpose Julie to sell licenses of the software instead that selling the software. He think too that it
would be better to don’t have an office and to be in touch with her secretary by phone. If she
followed that, the company will earn well again. She really liked the idea and she kissed him.
Mark sold his house and moved to Bath, he was the new director of CJF software solutions. They
knew that they were in love so Julie moved to live with Mark. Mark tried to get Julie to go climbing.
She think in how her life has changed.
Seven years later the robbery, linda was sitting in the garden when she read the newspaper and she
start crying. Mark read the news, a British couple were arrested in Spain for a jewellery robbery that
happened 7 years before and they knew it because Linda’s aunt died and she had to use her real
name to claim the property. She said that the man who was incinerator was Colin, her friend.
Finally, she would give colin his officially real name dead.
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