The Man Wants His Boat

By Ian Hillbeck

Working in a shipyard is hard. Some days it can be fatal. Today was one of those days.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ian Hillbeck
• Release date: Dec 10, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301626229

Ian Hillbeck

My name is Ian Hillbeck most of the time, and John Smith if I've done something wrong ;-) Friends call me "Merlin" and I can't spell what enemies call me... I was born on 14th May, 1960 (work it out) and I live and work in Barrow In Furness, Cumbria, UK. (Though my boss may want to argue the last bit :) I'm a Senior IT Engineer for the IT Department at BAE Systems, formerly known as Marconi Marine (Barrow) formerly known as VSEL, formerly known as Vickers, who are best known as builders of nuclear submarines for the Royal Navy. I have a wife called Ann and three children. Two boys called Gareth and Daniel and an alien female named Tyne. My Mother got quite annoyed at my reference to my daughter being an alien, but any father of a young girl will know exactly what I mean. When I'm not on my PC I like to write (obviously), listen to Meatloaf or play on someone else's PC. On Saturdays you may see me supporting my local soccer team Barrow AFC, cruising down the Lancaster Canal on my boat or out and about Geocaching.

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The Man Wants His Boat

By Ian Hillbeck

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Chapter 1.

Joe had never killed anyone before. He’d often joked about it. He even had a mental list in his head of potential victims. While he never thought he could actually ever kill someone, before this day was over, he would.

Joe’s bus stopped to pick up more passengers and the rattle of the rain on the window woke Joe from his thoughts just in time to nod acknowledgement to the other shipyard workers boarding the bus. They all sat in their usual places just as they did every morning. As the bus set off once more Joe gazed out the window into the darkness. The driving rain made the sodium street lights of the town centre streets glimmer and radiate their glow like huge chrysanthemums on poles.

This was a Shipyard bus, one of many that ran from every corner of the town each morning taking men to build the ships and submarines that kept the country safe. Joe had made this trip every morning for ten years now. By shipyard standards he was still a young un, but he knew every bump in the road between his home and the shipyard