With A Bullet
By Simon James
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Today, Terry Earle is sought after around the world as a music producer. All the new stars want some of his magic. All the established acts acknowledge his part in their success.
Film directors, politicians, sports stars and musicians are his friends. His parties are the stuff of legends.
But it wasn't always this way.
One dark London night changed his life in a heartbeat.
This is his story.
Simon James
I was born in Wiltshire in the 1960s and have worked as a surveyor, coat attendant, barman, pay clerk, outdoor instructor, and project manager. I have loved music ever since I could twiddle the dial on my first radio; my favourite bands are Faithless, Alabama 3, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. My own musical highlights include reaching the dizzy heights of grade 4 on the violin, bumping into Simply Red in a nightclub, and - more recently - singing backing vocals on a catfish website jingle (check out the video!) I love books, stories, music, mountaineering, the outdoors, and movies. I am learning the guitar. Slowly.
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With A Bullet - Simon James
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'Kept me up until 3 this morning to find out the ending. Really good read, great plot and characters with lots of detail thrown in. Still wasn't ready for the twist
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'Journeys to wild places are almost always exciting, journeys with a noble purpose are even better, and journeys with more unintentional and intended danger than you can shake a stick at, make great reading. The writing carries you along and takes you to beautiful and scary places. This is a great read.'
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'This book is a very enjoyable read. The characters are well developed, it is fast moving and action packed. The descriptions are brilliant, making it easy to imagine the scene.'
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'A good mix of intrigue, music, and the outdoors. Well worth a read.'
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'A well-written and engaging book, vivid and powerful imagery; it made me feel as though I was really there.'
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WITH A BULLET
By
SIMON JAMES
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Copyright
With A Bullet
Simon James
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Draft2Digital Edition
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Copyright © 2016 Simon James
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Photography Copyright © 2016 Simon James
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The right of Simon James to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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All rights reserved.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Table of Contents
Praise for GHOST NOTE by Simon James
Copyright
Dedication
With A Bullet
Shoot for the Moon (Suzie Steele)
Author's Note
Ghost Note - Chapter 1
About the Author
Connect with me
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Dedication
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For Vivienne, Ariella, Nathaniel,
and Ben, Catherine, Dad (Kenneth), Pat, and Dyllis
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– again, with all my love, Simon
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And for SG – for the funk and inspiration
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With A Bullet
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Soup.
Thick, steaming, satisfying soup.
Terrence Bernard Earle was dreaming of fresh home-made chicken soup when the horse kicked him in the face.
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Terry Earle spent the transition from his seventeenth to his eighteenth year with his teeth wired together, unconscious, in an East London hospital bed. His birthday came and went. No-one came to see him; no-one asked after him. No-one cared.
Not on a personal level, anyway. The nurses cared – one newly qualified even remarked it was a rubbish way to spend your birthday – but it was still professional care. He was one of the hundreds of patients they attended over that time, in that hospital, back in the last months of the Eighties.
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Two weeks later a surgeon removed the wiring from Terry's jaw. Terry was conscious this time. He rubbed his chin and opened his mouth a little. It ached something awful, and felt like someone had set a rabbit running laps round his teeth.
'We'll keep you here overnight, and then you're free to go tomorrow. One more night of soup by a straw, and you can get back to some proper food. Go easy on the bacon rolls to start with. I’m sure you don't want to go through that again.'
'Stuff that.' Terry's first words since the horse incident.
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Terry woke early, his jaw twinging. He had to wait for the consultant. As his injury was no longer life threatening, he'd be last on the rounds.
There was a knock.
It wasn't the consultant. It was a woman. A woman Terrence Bernard Earle had never seen before.
'Oh, good, you're awake. That's great. I wanted to catch you before you left. How are you?'
'Sorry? Who are you?'
'Melody. Melody Nelson.