The Umbrella Company
Drew Grozier
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Synopsis
Scotland in the 21st Century - a reality far removed from bagpipes, whisky and the tartan-clad heroes of yesteryear...
Tommy Campbell's business, The Umbrella Company, is a front for his burgeoning criminal empire, with its profits syphoned off to create a secret army to overthrow British rule in Scotland. As children, Rob and Andra Campbell worshipped Tommy, their elder cousin, and follow him as adults into a seedy world of corruption, drug trafficking, people smuggling, mass murder, and assassination.
Two Scottish Police Special Branch sergeants, Billy McIntyre and Charlie MacDonnell, are investigating the disappearance of two policewomen in the Scottish Highlands, with their enquiries in Scotland and Australia bringing them closer to uncovering The Umbrella Company's criminal activities.
Tommy Campbell's ambition to lead the fight for an independent Scotland begins to fade as he succumbs to the increasing wealth and power The Umbrella Company brings him, so it is the Campbell women - wives, daughters and sweethearts - led by Sandy Campbell, who insist that the original aims of The Umbrella Company be followed through - to unleash a conflict in Scotland that rivals anything in its bloody past.
About The Author
Drew Grozier is a freelance journalist. He has worked for APN News Ltd in Queensland on the South Burnett Times and the Warwick Daily
News as a casual journalist, and with the Toowoomba Mail as an advertising consultant. He has also had travel articles published in the Brisbane Sunday Sun
and The Clifton Courier, and has been writing full-length fiction and non-fiction books since January 2006, including the novels Blood Heritage and its forthcoming sequel Blood Armour, which are two full-length works of historical fiction written around the legends of the 6th Century Arthur of
the Battles, and Family Matters, a collection of short stories.
Drew returned to live in his native Scotland to research his books, and now lives in Toowoomba, Queensland, where he is a member of the Queensland Writers Centre and Clifton
Writers.
From The Book
Ahmed felt a great sense of achievement when he saw, over the bow of the dinghy, the white breakers falling on the shore. It was for this moment that he had endured such hardship, hunger and pain for the last six months. 'Allah be praised,' he whispered to his five companions. The outboard engine died to a whisper. The small dinghy following them also began surfing the waves onto the beach.
As soon as he was helped on to the sliding, shifting sand, Ahmed took out his mobile phone from his backpack and keyed in his brother-in-law's number.
A blow to his chest and arm spun him around and he looked for an attacker in the darkness of the Scottish night. Had he used the phone too soon? He would apologise and the matter would be finished.
His legs failed him. The mobile phone fell close beside him. He thought he could hear his sister's husband's voice nearby like a bee in a bottle.
'I'm very tired,' he whispered, for he could not draw a deep enough breath to speak out loud. 'But we are here at last; in the land of the free.'
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