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The Strife of Riley
De-ann Black
In this action-packed, modern thriller, based in Scotland, Riley is tasked by the Glasgow police force to investigate the killing al a man whose computer insists never existed. Unfortunately. Riley discovers his own name is on the killer's hit list, once again providing him with his usual measure of strife. As a historian and cyber sleuth, hc's also asked to help investigate the strange murder of a high ranking British politician. When the cases seem to be linked, this results in his past coming back to haunt him.
Riley has a double-edged existence and a dark, adventure filled past. He's a former member of the SRS - the Special Boat Service, one of the most secretive units of the British Special Forces. Comparable to the SAS. the predominantly Royal Navy unit are experts on both land and sea.
Through his special investigations Riley is drawn into dramatic and dangerous situations that go beyond the confines of his cyber sleuth expertise. Riley's world is inhabited by criminals, politicians, the police and British military - and those with a mind for mystery and deceit.
The Strife of Riley
a novel
De?ann Black
Toffee Apple
Toffee Apple Publishing
Text copyright @ 2010 by De?ann Black
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written consent of the publisher.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Published by Toffee Apple Publishing
The Strife of Riley
First edition 2010
Paperback ISBN?13: 978?1?908072?09?2 Epub ISBN?13: 978?1?908072?10?8
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Dedication:
To my father, Joe Black Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat Fortune Favours the Brave
By Strength and Guile is the motto of the Special Boat Service (SBS). The SBS is a highly secretive British Special Forces unit. Comparable to the SAS, they are the Royal Navy's elite, although nowadays men are selected from various UK military services, not just the Royal Marines.
The SBS are specialists on both land and water, though excel in amphibious operations, and are skilled Swimmer Canoeists. Their physical abilities, intelligence and skills to survive hostile situations are incredible.
This elite fighting force are sometimes known as the Invisible Raiders, and combine an extraordinary level of secrecy, stealth and guile.
Contents
Introduction
1? The Record Keeper
2? Imagery Intelligence
3? A Hunter's Game
4? Fortune Favours the Brave
5? Luck of the Devil
6? No Rest for the Wicked
7? Beyond This There Be Dragons
8?- HMS Excalibur
9? Dark Matter
10? The Edge of Nowhere
11? Cape Wrath
12? The Poison Code
13? Invisible Raiders
14? Shadow of the Warrior
15? It is Rocket Science
16? Special Forces
17? Viva Glas Vegas
18? The Dark Side
19? The Uncorruptables
Introduction
Riley had been part of the SBS, the Special Boat Service ? the British Royal Navy Special Forces unit. His last link with them was at HMS Excalibur, the submarine base near Helensburgh, Scotland. It was set beside the dark and unfathomable Gare Loch, north of Glasgow in the Firth of Clyde. He was also an experienced historian, raised by his father who was known as the Record Keeper, amid a world of ever changing history. History was to become Riley's future, but first, the past had to be dealt with.
As fate enjoys many cruel twists, his father died around the time Riley decided to leave the Special Forces and assume the supposed anonymity of a civilian. Riley became the new Record Keeper, more through a sense of responsibility rather than choice, but he was fine with that. Being the Record Keeper was his background career, while he concentrated on his own business as a modern private investigator. Riley was a cyber sleuth, an expert in computer related crime, a man at the top of his game, trained by the best ? unravelling mysteries and tracing the electronic fingerprints we all leave behind every time we use a computer.
Riley had been one of the military's most reliable, ruthless and renowned cyber experts. In civvy street, his skills were soon in demand from the police, the government and oh yes, the military. Riley had left their building, but they still wanted him to keep his foot in the door.
The Record Keeper
It had been two years since Riley's past had become history. A former member of the SBS, his last adventure with the military had dealt him his biggest measure of strife. But that was finished with. Now he was a?
civilian. Twelve years in the British Royal Navy had left their mark. Eight of those years in the Special Forces had scarred him forever. Aside from that, he looked just as fit as he'd always been, over six feet tall and strong, perhaps even stronger than before, and at thirty?four, only slightly older. Older but wiser? Well, probably not wiser. Riley had always been wise beyond his years. The problem was he rarely listened to his own advice...
Rain and hail battered against the windows of Riley's study, drumming into him a reminder of how harsh the weather in Scotland could be. October had arrived with a vengeance. Thunderstorms, icy rain that would rip the skin off your face, foggy nights when, if the cold didn't get you, the fog would. Glasgow weather. It was one of the things he'd missed during his missions abroad. Others moaned about the grim, grey, damp days, but when you'd nearly fried in the forests of Columbia, trudged across scorching deserts in rough boots, and floated for a week off the coast of the tropics, a wee bit of drizzle was very welcome.
It was around eight o'clock at night, and he was working from home in a castellated mansion in a secluded area on the outskirts of the city. It was the family house he'd grown up in and which was now empty of life, apart from him and the hundreds of books and data lining the walls of the study like a voluminous library. Charts of star constellations were framed alongside prints of ancient maps of the world. Riley's favourite map was one dating back to the days of the early mariners and explorers, before anyone knew what lay beyond the far side of the great oceans, and which bore the warning message Beyond This Place There Be Dragons! Riley could relate to that sentiment. Life for him had never been easy. Haunted by the mess he'd made of his past, he could appreciate that even in today's world, beyond some limits, physical or personal, there were indeed dragons. Maybe not the sort the map warned of, but treacherous, monstrous characters and places where human nature festered at its worst.?
He secured all the windows which were getting a fair rattling from the hailstones. The wind howled like a wounded animal as it whipped through the trees that shrouded his vast garden from prying eyes. The property was protected by the latest high tech security that he'd installed himself, and good luck to anyone who actually managed to break in while Riley was there. And he was there a lot. There was something calming about battening the hatches from the past and keeping off the main radar. The work flowed in via his computer or by phone. The police detectives and government officials rarely chapped his door. It was better for everyone that way. That's how his latest job had arrived, in the form of an e?mail; an e?mail containing a corrupted file that the police hadn't been able to fully open. Riley had been asked by the police in Glasgow to help them investigate the killing of a man whose computer insisted never existed. The man, a forger known as Mackenzie, had been found stabbed while apparently working at his computer. Mackenzie had an unsavoury criminal background, and from the initial data it appeared that he'd compiled a killer's hit list. Unfortunately, Riley discovered his own name was on the hit list, once again providing him with his usual measure of strife.
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