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If your whole existence is based on the trust a woman puts in you, then you have two choices: * You make sure you never break that trust. OR * You make sure no one remains alive to tell of the broken trust! Content retired Formula One World Champion race driver Stirling Speed begins picking at the curled corner of billionaire Lawrence Troutman's perfect life with his serene wife, Kristianna, sole heiress of the Arias cosmetic empire. He soon starts to peel back a veneer that reveals the broken trust hidden below, but with that knowledge, Stirling again takes on his archenemy that he battled during his racing years--death! Stirling Speed now finds himself in a new race to transform himself from being the hunted to being the hunter--a race that sees his E-type Jaguar in careering car chases and having to stretch its long legs to the glittering Monte Carlo and the green hell that is the Nrburgring Nordschleife.

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Publié par	Austin Macauley Publishers
Date de parution	29 mars 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781645366133
Langue	English

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The Broken Trust
Stuart Jones
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-03-29
The Broken Trust About the Author About the Book Dedication Copyright Information Acknowledgements Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47
About the Author
Stuart Jones is a championship-winning race driver and a qualified international race driver coach. Whilst still at school, he was singled out for his writing. A number of his young scribblings found writing competition success. All assumed that his writing would continue after he left school. At 52 years of age, he picked up the pen again. A life of traveling the world, driving racecar exotica, and mixing with the fascinating people that populate the glamorous motorsport industry has provided him with fertile material that demanded that he should recommence his long-dormant writing.
About the Book
If your whole existence is based on the trust a woman puts in you, then you have two choices:
* You make sure you never break that trust. OR
* You make sure no one remains alive to tell of the broken trust! Content retired Formula One World Champion race driver Stirling Speed begins picking at the curled corner of billionaire Lawrence Troutman's perfect life with his serene wife, Kristianna, sole heiress of the Arias cosmetic empire. He soon starts to peel back a veneer that reveals the broken trust hidden below, but with that knowledge, Stirling again takes on his archenemy that he battled during his racing years--death!
Stirling Speed now finds himself in a new race to transform himself from being the hunted to being the hunter--a race that sees his E-type Jaguar in careering car chases and having to stretch its long legs to the glittering Monte Carlo and the green hell that is the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
Dedication
To my dad for creating my dreams and to my mom for giving me the skills to make those dreams come true.
Copyright Information
Copyright © Stuart Jones (2019)
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Jones, Stuart
The Broken Trust: Stirling Speed, Retired Racing Driver
ISBN 9781641828000 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781641828017 (Hardback)
ISBN 9781641828024 (Kindle e-book)
ISBN 9781645366133 (ePub e-book)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019935956
The main category of the book — Fiction / Crime
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Acknowledgements
To Lisa, my wife, for helping me to keep all the plates spinning and to Josh, my son, for always believing in me.
Prologue
The small but high revving engine noise spiked as the overworked rear tires broke traction for a split second; Roger Speed was starting to push hard. Despite the promise to his wife, Suzanne, that he would be taking it easy on the test, Roger knew that this was his chance to prove that he had what it took to rise to the very top of professional motorsport. For too long he had been known as a club racer, a journey man. Now, with the chance to test for a top team in a prototype Formula 3 car in front of the team owner, Lawrence Troutman, Roger had his chance, and he was going to grasp it with both hands.
Lawrence Troutman stood on the outside banking of the long, difficult climbing right-hander, aptly named ‘school’ corner, his back to the chopping sea, facing the small but tricky Anglesey race circuit as one of his own prototype Formula Three cars buzzed around the circuit. The lively F3 car appeared to carry a little too much speed into a combination corner that started with ‘Douglas In’ the understeering car resulting in a poor entry position for the important exit of the corner, ‘Douglas Out.’ Roger cursed his mistake and knew that he would now be delayed getting the power on through the mount view kink and out onto the fast downhill start / finish straight.
Roger gave himself a talking-to as he hurled down the straight, quickly responding to the requests from the engine for more gears.
“Come on, Roger, you can do better than this. Come on, boy, slower in, faster out. Come on, Roger, get a grip.”
The School corner rushed up without delay. The lone figure of Mr. Troutman clearly defined against the blue sky backdrop on top of the banking that rimmed the high speed, high grip corner.
Roger knew the start of the corner was the difficult bit, as the neutral camber offered no assistance to the wayward cornering racecar. Roger breezed across the brake pedal whilst blipping the throttle pedal at the same time to allow for a quick change from 5 th gear to 4 th . Happy that the car was settling, Roger loaded the throttle pedal up before the car could get too comfortable. The normally aspirated F3 Novamotor engine instantly responded. The car seemed to almost hunker down as the weight transfer and modicum of down force pressed the small F3-sized slick tires hard into the polished tarmac. Roger knew he had judged it just right. Mr. Troutman was witnessing one of his F3 cars on the limit.
The left front suspension failure was felt through the steering wheel before Roger actually saw, with his widening eyes, his left front wheel slam back into the aluminum tub he sat in. With a quarter of its grip gone, the F3 car got its way and abandoned the direction of the corner, heading straight for the banking at 120 mph. Roger tried to minimize the angle of impact, but his toolbox was empty. He let go of his steering wheel, crossed his arms, and gripped his safety harness. The huge impact had the mercy to take away Rogers consciousness so as to spare him the horror of the inferno as his fuel tank irrupted!
Chapter 1
Peter Smith felt out of proportion in the huge dimensions of the room in which he waited, almost like an ‘OO’ gauge character on a model railway that had mistakenly been placed on a much larger ‘O’ gauge model railway. A single immaculate plush, and, no doubt, heavy, gold-armed, purple-cushioned chair had been placed within the palatial waiting room on which Peter Smith now perched and awaited to be summoned. The pure white floor-to-ceiling oversized double doors swung open together, controlled by the opening arms of an immaculate usher. No words were spoken, but permission to enter was communicated by the standing position of the usher at the edge of the open door.
“Sir.”
“Thank you for coming, Peter. Please sit. You have had time to study the file?”
Peter Smith sat down at the ornate, old leather-clad desk and placed the file in question on the aged leather.
“Yes, sir, I have.”
“And you agree this Troutman chap needs our treatment?”
“Yes, sir, indeed. Lawrence Troutman has become…”
"One of our cases, Peter. He is a powerful public figure. You have a plan?
Peter Smith reached into his file and removed and slid across an A4-sized photo of a face, knowing his boss would instantly recognize that face. A raised eyebrow was the only giveaway.
“Stirling Speed, he once attempted to show me how to drive my Aston around Brands Hatch. Since his sudden retirement, he seems to have dropped completely out of the limelight, your reasoning?”
“Mr. Speed, or Stirling, as he prefers to be called, has a connection with Troutman, and not the obvious one.” Peter Smith hesitated, knowing his audience time was limited and information had to be kept concise.
“His uncle, Roger Speed, was killed in a race car a number of years ago when Stirling was still a child, and he was killed in one of Troutman’s race cars. Our investigations show that Stirling has been asking questions about the accident for quite some time, and we strongly feel, sir, that Troutman was involved in Stirling’s Monza accident. We strongly feel that Troutman wants Stirling dispatched. Stirling Speed is the perfect bait to draw Troutman out.”
“Be sure to keep this clean, Peter. If we cannot cleanly bring Troutman down, then we need to let him go. We can never compromise our arrangement, Peter.”
“I know, sir, Stirling’s involvement would be critical. If we cannot get him involved, then we will have to postpone any action against Troutman.”
As the large doors closed behind him, Peter Smith knew this was going to be a difficult case, and a sense of guilt pricked from deep inside. By all accounts, Stirling Speed was happily retired. Peter Smith knew that he was about to shatter that happy retirement.
Chapter 2
The bee’s striking colors seemed fluorescent in the bright English sunlight. The permanent knowledge that a bee is black and yellow seemed somehow distant now with the actual visualization of the vibrant colors of this industrious insect as it purposely visited each crisp, scented flower. To be lost in the moment, just watching, listening, and feeling the surro