Helen James & To Catch a Thief

By J Maxwell

It was a hot day at school and Helen James had made sure that she drank sufficient water only she went over the top. During the lesson after lunch she asked to go to the toilet. On her way to the girls’ toilets she is engulfed by Hyming and spirited out of the school and across the universe to the Uklet Galaxy and the planet Drogan.
She was not to know but 2 other ‘Goods’ had all ready visited the planet Drogan but could not find the reason for the beings dying. Zacred would not call on Helen but his wife sanctioned Hyming collecting her but they would hide her form Zacred. It took Helen a short while to discover the cause. The other inhabited planet in this star system, Flym had destroyed all the trees on their planet that produced the Oxygn which was the life blood of both Flym and Drogan. Unbeknown to the Drogans the Flym's had devised a way to take the Oxygn they needed from Drogan.
Helen was now in a quandary. If she stopped Flym taking the Oxygn from Drogan they would die but if she didn't then the Drogans would die.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J Maxwell
• Release date: Nov 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370776238

J Maxwell

J.J. Maxwell is an entrepreneur who enjoys writing between (and often during) business ventures. Mostly a writer of screenplays, Along the Darksome Road is his first non-fiction novel. From a family of ardent readers, enjoyment of the written word seems to be in his genes, since his paternal grandfather was a rotogravure pressman for the New York Daily News (amongst other newspapers) and his great-grandfather and great-uncle were also in the newspaper business.

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Helen James

&

To Catch a Thief

BY

J.J. MAXWELL

Helen James & To Catch a thief

First published in Great Britain in 2016

By R & J Looker Publications

(Smashwords edition)

Copyright © Robert J.M. Looker 2016

The right of JJ Maxwell to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by Robert J.M. Looker in accordance with the

Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988

All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Helen James series of books

The Yunkery Problem

Peace ?

Fall from Grace

Family Feud

To Catch a Thief

Crash

Books to follow

No Answers

Race for Life

Rubbish

Frozen in Time

First Day

Saving Father Christmas

Dedications

To my wife who has supported me throughout.

To my Grand Daughter for being an inspiration in my life

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - We can’t help this one

Chapter 2 - Oh what now?

Chapter 3 - This is not right

Chapter 4 - Let’s look around

Chapter 5 - What is Oxygn?

Chapter 6 - The winds

Chapter 7 - Where is everybody?

Chapter 8 - Let’s get going

Chapter 9 - That is Theft

Chapter 10 - Why more?

Chapter 11 - Send the seeds

Chapter 12 - The first seeds

Chapter 13 - Take me home

Chapter 14 - But …

About the Author

Sample Chapters - Helen James & Crash

Chapter 1 - We can’t help this one

For the Visitants, today was a normal sweep of the Universe. They were in the deep area where there were few galaxies and because of this they didn’t come out here all that often.

They had reached the Uklet Galaxy and because it was a small galaxy Zacred, the Visitants leader had sent three of his family away from the family cloud to check out each of the star systems to ensure that there were no problems that needed the Visitant’s attention.

Whenever a problem is found, whereby a planet, star system or Galaxy is bringing about its own destruction, it was the Visitants destiny to put it right.

The Visitants were a being where each member was a blue haze. They could, however travel at great speed. As such they had no actual substance and could not carry out the necessary work to solve any of the problems. For this they would use the services of a ‘Good’.

There were only five such beings in the Universe who had been identified as ‘Goods’. Selecting the right one for each particular problem was down to Zacred. As far as he was concerned there was one ‘fly in the ointment’, a ‘Good’ called Helen James.

Helen had been selected to replace Tyred after he had passed away. Zacred had been against selecting Helen but he was outvoted.

Helen had succeeded in most of her tasks but she had an unusual way of working and caused quite a stir within the Visitants’ cloud.

Her latest contact with them had interfered with how he ran the Visitants, when she was called in to try and settle a dispute between Zacred and some of the younger members of the family group.

Weting had returned from the Tryndr star system to report that on the planet Drogan many of the people and creatures were dying.

What is killing them? Zacred asked.

I don’t know. I could see bodies lying about on the land, Weting reported.

Was there fighting? Lyking asked.

No, that was the funny thing about it. I sensed nothing abnormal across the planet other than these bodies.

Zacred we must do something, we can’t let these people just die, Lyking told her husband.

Yes we will call in Jawake, he can sort this one out, Zacred said

But he only deals with diplomatic issues.

He will be able to find out what the problem is and negotiate a solution, Zacred said.

Juging, go and fetch Jawake and take him down to Drogan, Zacred ordered.

It never takes the Visitants long to cross the universe and return with the desired ‘Good’. Juging took Jawake down to the planet and waited while he carried out his investigation but it didn’t take him long to call out for Juging to take him away from the planet.

Juging took Jawake up to the Visitants’ cloud so he could report to Zacred.

I can see no reason for of all these deaths, as such take me home, Jawake said.

But you have to solve this, Zacred stated.

No. There is nothing to solve; they are just dying.

Zacred had never experienced this before. The ‘Goods’ had always been able to solve