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1. Retired Oxton geography teacher William Loneskie’s new e-novel Threat Level Critical is on the one hand an action novel about a quasi-military terrorist plot with its narrative set in real places, mostly in Northern Britain, and on the other a political statement of our time. Mr Loneskie covered thousands of miles in 2011 researching his 50,000 word book which begins at Soutra Aisle and ends at Loch Assynt. Here is an extract :
   Chapter 25 Rendezvous
   The pilot banked the new Viking Twin Otter over the Strait of Gibraltar looking for the Superyacht Ocean Oasis, which he soon spotted because she was hard to miss. Longer than The Transato, she was a dazzlingly impressive craft, as was her bill of sale. Unlike The Transato she was a perfectly ordinary yacht, without the accoutrements of war, and without a planing hull which restricted her maximum speed to around 20 knots despite the power of two 3,000 bhp Caterpillar diesels. ‘Ordinary’ however, could never describe the appearance and quality of such a vessel; ‘luxury’ could. The saloon, featuring sumptuous horseshoe seating in red wool and leather, was enclosed by huge glazing not only around it but also above it. The armoured glass ceiling allowed maximum daylight to penetrate in gloomy conditions, and could also be closed off in hot weather with insulated electric-sliding panels. The sundeck featured a hot tub large enough to be a small swimming pool around which were arranged designer tables and chairs and a bar which rose from below the deck at the touch of a button. The decking was of traditional teak with stainless steel highlights and the guard rails were of four inch diameter heavily chromed steel. At the top of the yacht was a modern version of a crow’s nest for the most dramatic of views, which was reached by a lift from the main deck. In the summer the women who sat on chairs on the top deck around the fat, balding man who employed them would have been in bikinis, but in the cool of the Mediterranean winter they wore trouser suits instead. Their eyeware was the same however -the most expensive sunglasses- which continued to hide their thoughts behind an aggressive stare similar to the in-your-face black niquab of the Muslim fundamentalist.
   Threat Level Critical can be downloaded from the Kindle website.

   

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