Stop Them Dead by Peter James EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Peter James
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- Genre: Kidnapping Crime Fiction
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Thursday, 25 March 2021
Tim Ruddle was a reluctant disciple of Winston Churchill’s maxim that
success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of
enthusiasm. And if failure had been an Olympic sport, he could have taken
gold countless times over, he rued as he lay in bed unable to sleep on this
stormy late March night, unlike his wife, Sharon, who was as usual lost to
the world beside him. She could sleep for England and if sleeping was an
Olympic sport, she would sure as hell be on that podium.
He so envied her that ability. He could not remember when he’d last had
a good night’s sleep, a night when he hadn’t lain awake worrying about this
latest chapter in their life, then needed to get up and pee. Once, moving to
the countryside and buying a farm had been their dream. The good life.
Their two kids brought up away from all the violence and the other crap
that London threw at you. Back to nature. The idyll that existed only in the
pages of books. Not the grim reality of a farmer’s life. The regulations. The
subsidies that everyone else seemed eligible for except themselves.
They’d tried diversifying, opening a farm shop, and had recently been
granted planning application to create a petting zoo and cafe. Both of them
loved animals and had created a small revenue stream from alpaca-walking.
But so far their biggest source of income from Old Homestead Farm was
quite by accident and a very welcome surprise. Thanks to the massive rise
in demand for dogs due to the lockdowns, the blue French bulldog puppies
their beloved pet, Brayley, had given birth to just seven weeks ago, were
worth a staggering £3,000 each.
In breeding her, it had originally been their intention to keep a least one
of the puppies, but the injection of badly needed cash they would get from
the sales would help considerably with their new project. The five puppies
were awaiting collection by their new owners in a week’s time, after their
inoculations.
Outside in the barn across the farmyard below their bedroom window,
Rudi, the proud father, had begun barking. Rudi regularly barked at the
wind, at rustling leaves, and most of all at Enemy No. 1, the aircraft that
regularly flew overhead on their flight path to Gatwick Airport whenever
the wind was blowing from the east, as it was tonight. Sharon frequently
joked that Rudi was pretty effective: during the year they had been here not
a single aeroplane had landed on their fields!
But Rudi’s bark was different tonight. Ferocious, as if he was genuinely
troubled by something out there in the darkness. And after a few moments,
Sally, their female Labrador, who rarely ever made a sound – as if she had a
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