Mercy

Martin Godleman

What would you say to five hundred pounds for poisoning a prize lawn?
Or a thousand for burning down some old stables?
How about five thousand for destroying the lifetime’s work of an artist?
Where would you draw the line?
And how long would it be before you wanted to know what it was all about?

It is 1995. Alan Dacres is a retiring management consultant whose last job takes him to a corner of the world he has not seen since he was sixteen. A corner of the world in which he was bullied mercilessly as a scholarship boy from a 1950’s English grammar school. Forty years on, he is ready to track down the five people responsible. But to remain anonymous he needs help. Help from someone he can trust.
The unpoliced corridors of the Internet will provide the safety Dacres has been looking for. A source from behind which he can carry out his mission of revenge to its ultimate goal – pinning each of the crimes against the first four on the fifth, the ringleader.

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