Betrayal and Deceit
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Betrayal Chapter 1
Martin Smith gets behind the wheel of his car; he does not know how he has got there. The world is spinning out of control, making his head feel like an over used fair ground ride.
He feels the beads of sweat running down his face, torturing him like ball bearings rolling down the street, un-stoppable, un-relenting. Yet he feels cold, shivering like he has been exposed to deep freeze.
His head is heavy, the pressure building, a powder keg waiting to explode. His hands feel like they belong to someone else, as he looks at them, they seem miles away, floating in midair almost like he is watching them on a TV screen. His legs start cramping, causing excruciating, unbearable pain, he can’t cope with this, he wants it to all end now!
What is happening, why does he feel like this? What is causing this?
Yes it has been a hard day, wait, a high pressured day like no other one, but he is used to it, it goes with the territory. Is it the job, is it home, what is making feel so bad, so oppressed?
His chest starts to ache as his heart beats a marching tune in his chest, trying to fight it’s way out, thumping, thumping, bursting to be let out, to be let free from this weight of expectation.
Then the banging, what is that banging, incessant noise? His head must be exploding, is this what a stroke feels like, what it feels like to know the end is nigh?
What is going on?
“Am I dying” he thinks
“Oy mate, what are you doin‘.”
The banging continues, over and over again, but wait, not in his head, but on the car window.
“What the hell are you up to mate, are you ok, what‘s wrong?”
“What….?”
“I said are you ok?”
Martin opened his eyes and looked out of the window at the Neanderthal trying to open his window with his fist. Frantically trying to come back to reality, he winds down his window to talk to him.
“Sorry….?”
“Are you ok pal, you look like shit!”
“Eh.. Yeah I think so….bad day what can I do for you?”
“Move your fucking car mate, I’m going to miss the match and I am late and you’re in the way, are you shifting your car or what?”
“Yeah…sorry…going now”.
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Betrayal and Deceit
Martin Smith is a excellent seller, working in a successful bank. Married to a beautiful wife, he has it all, or does he? All is not what it seems to the outside world.
What events could turn this straight-laced, conscientious husband into a bank robber, a fugitive on the run? What transformation would need to happen to drive this man to leave the seemingly perfect life behind?
The panic attacks, the mounting bills, a spend thrift wife and then the ultimate betrayal will lead to the absolute deceit.
Then the chase begins…
About the Author
I am a recently separated/divorced man with two boys and yes I work in a bank. And yes the character in the book, which looks like being a trilogy is based loosely on me. Although most of the scenarios happen on a daily basis in a bank, I have used writers licence with some of the procedures to allow the book to flow more fluently, therefore before any fraudsters out there getting any ideas or my employer gets too concerned it would be virtually impossible to defraud my bank in this way. As for any other banks, be warned. I do feel It does not detract from the story, whatsoever. As for me, I am a debut author, who started this project as a pet hobby to be honest, but it grew from a little acorn into large oak tree of an idea. Originally a one-off project, it grew before my eyes into something more exciting than I could ever have imagined! I am an avid reader of various genre’s ranging from Stephen King to Dean Koontz, from James Patterson to John Grisham, Ian Rankin to Tolkien to James Herbert. I was always being ribbed in the tearoom at work for always having my nose stuck in a book and Stephen King’s book “On writing” gave me the confidence to have a go myself. My family and friends, who have read the book have all asked the same question, “Who wrote the book, really?”, so I must be onto something here, I hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed writing it and as for Martin Smith, well you will have to wait and see…