Cruise Control Over

By Paul Stansby

Now in six parts. An ex formula one racing championship driver memoirs are released; written by his friend while they've been confined to their boats during the times of the lockdowns caused by the corona Virus, normally they'd be passing their days in the Rum bars entertaining themselves and visitors in the convivial atmosphere of such bars.
The racing driver had gone to Vegas twenty years ago before his last race and encompassed a scenario similar to a Hangover" one as portrayed in three films. This chap had robbed a bank, burgled a jewel store, stolen a car, shot off across LAX satisfying his adrenaline fuelled drug state and managed to get to Florida keys where he picked up a yacht and disappeared to the Caribbean never to be heard of again until the appearance of his memoirs. With everything being in Lockdown they put the memoirs online then do an exit from the island they're on and go over to Columbia in South America for safety to await the outcomes, if any, the racing driver also knowing he had around twenty million of unpaid taxes to the UK inland revenue.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Stansby
• Release date: Feb 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005819231

Book preview

Part One. Life on the move again

          Chapter One A Marina in Grenada, Caribbean

        ‘Phenomenal’

        ‘It is Jimmy, off the scene for twenty years and you’re an instant hit, I stuck your memoirs of the race track together and got them online, et LA Voila !

      ‘Covid-19 got us out of the bars and we ended up with a very constructive result Jack’

      ‘Just two weeks, the Super yacht on the end of the quay let me use their internet connection to upload it onto the book sites I have’

      ‘It appeared so easy, life after my Vegas Blow out could be worthwhile too’

      ‘It’s a very apt last chapter, most racing drivers have their blow outs on the track, you crashed and burned in a casino full of lap dancers and fancy cocktails, cocktails more fancy than they should have been as you found out’

      ‘I’m just wondering about my unpaid tax’

        ‘It’s a felony, fortunately with this worldwide pandemic you’re safe, gambling all your money away and therefore bankrupting yourself supposedly does not wear well with the UK Tax guys, they want their slice, most likely why the winnings aren’t taxed so the losses can’t be declared as a loss, that’s too easy’

      ‘It’s over five years’

        ‘The money Jimmy can no longer accrue interest, but some eager beaver wanting to get some browny points would drag you over the coals to get you banged up for non payment’

        ‘It was fourteen million’

        ‘At seven per cent interest over five years considerably more, so five million sales on your memoirs last time I looked, at Nine ninety nine as well is more than good. These many weeks of world wide lockdowns where many are bored senseless, something spicy turned up for people to indulge in whilst stuck indoors’

        ‘At least you were organised with these online sellers’

        ‘Uh huh, a relevant bank account with attached tax codes, at least for the US, so Seventy per cent revenue makes 35 million plus to date, fifty fifty each was a little generous on your part’

      ‘So Jimmy Dunstain lives again’

      ‘You do indeed, a true resurrection, at least you’re too old to get back on the circuit and terminate yourself on it for real in true legend fashion’

      ‘Do you think ‘Dorian’ industries will cut me in on the idea I had and they successfully developed’

      ‘That came about from the yacht your father had, a home power cell, everybody has heating boilers,  here they have coolers, so why not a unit for electricity rather than dragging cables around the country side from enormous power stations, losing around fifty percent of generated on the way to the home.’

      ‘Nuclear power and coal have now become increasingly out of favour, they weren’t popular twenty years ago so hook up to the gas with an efficient engine with minimal emissions and an efficient alternator in the home was obvious.’ 

        ‘Too obvious, no hideous turbines blotting out the countryside, good for industry to construct and  erect them though.’

      ‘Little wind for a while makes them not so feasible, certainly a magical power unit ‘Dorian came up with.’

‘      Yep, you instigated the development, runs of methane easily as well, the newly designed poop box will reduce sewerage needs a lot too, technology advanced while traditional methods remained in place.’

      ‘When do you think the bars will re-open, celebrate our new found wealth Jack.’

        ‘Yeah, sooner here than in Europe I would think, chilling out here in Umbrellas, drinking chilled beers while watching soccer and rugby with lovely girls waiting on is sorely missed.’

      ‘Our main highlight of the day, sweating it out onboard with electric fans redistribution the heat becomes loathsome after a few hours.’

      ‘It is Jimmy, still it’s something to look forward too.’

      ‘She wanted to be appreciated and not devoured.’

      ‘Something like that Jack, a total pain in the ass.’

      ‘So different girls at all the race meetings in your last year as you indicated.’

      ‘Oh yes, almost as many as there were pitstops.’

      ‘The results as opposed to your racing ones will be nineteen now, so a good age for them to discover you, certainly more fun and no doubt their mothers were tantalising beauties as race track groupies all seem to be fabulous lookers’

      ‘They were, certainly made the trophy a double after winning the race, so their offspring should be such, at least they’ll be out of their teenage years’

        ‘So how many actual exploits or conquests as such?’

        ‘Oh a lot as I said, maybe more than a hundred and that’s a century in cricket’

      ‘No doubt there was a mythical one hundred club amongst drivers.’

      ‘There is or was, many got caught on the way to it though.’

      ‘We better get on with the second volume Jimmy, you’ll need the cash spoiling an entourage of that size, especially as they’ll most likely be beauties.’

      ‘Not forgetting the mothers.’

      ‘Oh god yes, any thirty year old conquests you had should have finished their menopause, so I’ll help you out there.’

      ‘I think there were, you could be a hit with the grandmothers.’

      ‘Oh they’re well past their menopause, I’ll do the second volume for free, no fifty fifty, it’ll make for a better book as there’s the pressure build to make the second one better than the first to win more cash.’

      ‘I see your point, on the track once you’ve won a few races you had your adrenaline running to win the championship.’

      ‘That often doesn’t happen with a narrative.’

      ‘Hence the saying everybody has a book in them.’

      ‘Well, one that stands out, like many music groups with just one solitary hit.’

      ‘They certainly do, I’ve read Frankenstein and Dracula, I know of no others by Stoker

and Shelley.’

        ‘Hugely successful books, so let’s make your second volume as successful as your first one is.’

Chapter Two: Three Ladies in their sixties social distancing on what's app in Italy

      ‘There certainly looks to be a strong resemblance to him and the girls, Daniella’

      ‘There does indeed Rosanna and Carolyn’

      ‘They were second cousins it is looking highly likely with this picture of Jimmy Dunstain in his memoirs that they are more than 12.5 % connected as second cousins’

      ‘Almost by two thirds Carolyn’

      ‘Indeed Rosanna, our daughters indicated such twenty years ago, but he’d disappeared off the scene, vacated the world to most’

      ‘By the looks of this his own lockdown Rosanna is in the Caribbean. He’s certainly looking good in the book, maybe cause some ruptures with our three girls, your granddaughter Daniella must have been first in line.’

      ‘Assuming they were caught in the first instance Rosanna, well nobody is going anywhere at present with this damn virus, staying alive for the over sixties seems to be risky, they’ll have no doubt picked this up online at their school in Switzerland.’

      ‘I’m not enquiring Daniella, hopefully they haven’t, though we’ve aways said they were strikingly alike, now rather unique as well, he certainly looks as though he’s lived well, he carried his high of winning every race on the track to Vegas, his invincibility succumbed to the roll of the dice and a stack of cards.’

      ‘You excluded the spin of the wheel Rosanna.’

      ‘I did Carolyn, too corny that reference for him, four times formula one world racing champion, it would have made a clean sweep for the season with the last race had he made it, missed out on the crowning too, Vegas swept him way instead, so do we interfere or sit back sisters, your call Daniella as you’re the eldest.’

      ‘Hell of a father for them to have, his future depends on his financial situation, an unpaid fourteen million Uk tax bill will be one of those guys over there will want to vilify, he’s safe at present as we’re all locked down and no chance of anybody getting to the Caribbean for months’

      ‘An excellently timed release of memoirs by whoever wrote it, I’ve checked the writer out and he’s got a lot online and his stories are not bad at all but there’s so much online to achieve any notoriety, that requires some reckless act like streaking on the pitch at a soccer match with ones name tattooed onto your butt, a good style of writing too as they all auto translate with relative ease Daniella.’

      ‘An added reason for the universal success of these memoirs Carolyn plus here with Dorian Cars & Industries being Italian, their synonymous racing cars coupled with their exclusive sport cars brand for almost a century now.’

      ‘So our girls temporarily became race skanks Daniella’

      ‘More or less, that’s kinda of close to sluts, but I suppose they did Rosanna, certain resulted in their own girls being stunning teaming up alongside Dorian’s best ever driver’

      ‘Yep, that hunk assisted with knocking out a formidable team with them, so good they’ve all gone to finishing school’

      ‘Oh yes, looking as they do Danielle an intellectual continuance would have been wasted, myself and Carolyn were in total agreement; learn style, etiquette, conversing techniques and poise, not forgetting the all important languages’

      ‘They’ll most likely, Rosanna, drag their dad out of the bars and back into the lime light, it’s a pity the three of us can meet up for a glass of champagne and lunch, followed by a delightful drive to Switzerland to meet up with the girls, I went there after our English schooling at a boarding school in Italy, you and Rosanna missed out’

      ‘We did Daniella, in those days that was just for the oldest girls in a family, today its totally different of course, I and Carolyn looked on in envy at your two year escape’

      ‘Skiing every weekend was a definite plus at that school.’

      ‘Won you medals at two Olympics, so you’re revered forever in the annals of time, we were envious sisters looking on, myself and Rosanna, though the trips abroad to see you in action were a plus and some wonderful parties. You were a great topic of conversation in our teenage years growing up, so for once we can’t plan’

      ‘Not a damn thing Carolyn, we’re all stuck in our homes tending our gardens, its not for me a daily interaction with plants, only mad people converse with trees, time to have a go at these memoirs of his in Italian as I’ve only just auto-translated them online, my English is rather rusty as they say, not sure on that idiom.’

      ‘A fickle language, still the our predecessors tried to make Latin the language to speak and failed so we’re stuck with English, we need the girls to read it out in Italian for us from the English, ah an online delivery is at the door, not shopping is also very irregular, so speak and see you online later Daniella and Rosanna’

      Chapter Three: Switzerland

      ‘Great snow and no doubt great powder for once, so frustrating not being able to ski.’

      ‘It is Georgie, how about Jimmy Dunstain?’

      ‘That Arabella is even more frustrating, it would be so cool to chill with him and get to know him, one couldn’t wish for a better dad turning up, though the worst timing ever, It’ll be months for this fracas to finish and actually being able to fly, if of course any airlines survive it all.’

      ‘It’ll be expensive as most will streamline their activities, total crap for the around the world backpackers and holidays on a budget, fortunately our respective grans are loaded, Juliet how does that work out now with us three genetically ?’

      ‘My gran sent a text that we’re now sixty two and half per cent connected to each other, more so I think Georgie as we’ve spent the last three years together, I expect with air travel it’ll become mostly club class or business first class and rip out the cheap seats to accommodate more of those, hopeless for resorts and vacationers out for a boozy week.’

      ‘I expect you’re right, makes sense filling your planes up with the rich clientele, an exclusive privilege for few will partake in a journey packed in like sardines breathing all over each other and another pandemic will no doubt follow on this one in the polluted environment that now exists, so our actual dad was top dog with Dorian Cars.’

      ‘I would think Georgie we will be popular with the car firm too.’

      ‘I think so, Juliet, most of the girls here a the school say we’re rather hot.’

      ‘I’ve had a few approaches Georgie, some of the girls have shacked up with a partner to alleviate the present constraints’

      ‘We need entertainment Juliet and the simple way is to it under the covers with one another, gets the adrenaline on the move, now I’m getting flushed thinking about it.’

      ‘Me too,  Georgie, In my sleep I dream of my hands exploring and exploiting me, I’m too trite when awake Georgie’

      ‘An uptight Juliet, now we’re sisters we could legitimately share a bed, sisterly love’

      ‘Ah, so I could explore you in my dreams as well, I’ll think on that, I’ve yet to have a passionate embrace Georgie. It’s so much easier to have a traditional life than explore the other possibilities it presents, one even may prefer the other side god forbid’

      ‘There’s always both, Juliet’

      ‘Maybe Georgie, I don’t want to be ogling your lingerie attire in a different way, still we will soon have this wondrous dad to captivate us, he looks the part’

      ‘He looks very fit for forty four in his memoirs, an excellent chaperone for us as he adores the nightlife’

      ‘We’ll be as jealous as hell when he pulls other girls around our age, some girls like a little vintage and sure looks to be good one, puts a women to seventh heaven with ease I expect’

      ‘I expect we will Carolyn, we’ll keep him on tight reins I think, won’t we Juliet.’

      ‘Ah, one problem, if this last year of him participating in formulae one rack track was one of  abandonment from the traditional values of one man to a woman after departing from the staid relationship he had, they’ll be most likely more be more of us Georgie’

      ‘Hopefully we’ll be top dogs Carolyn’

      ‘Yes, not bitches or witches, top of the class in beauty, manners, decorum and style. I’m so glad we were sent here now, time for some Georgie romanticising, fine dresses, balls and catwalks with everybody envying us.’

      ‘Mentioning Balls, it’s time to get into ballet attire Georgie for dance class’

      ‘Yep, lots of wandering hands ending up where they shouldn’t Juliet too, closeted girls get steamed up’

      Chapter Four.  Next day in the Caribbean

        ‘Here’s some selfies, Jimmy, from some possibilities of your exploits, in ballet gear as well, certainly beauties with fine physiques, they’ve listed there mother’s names along with theirs on the photos’

      ‘Let’s see, it’s a handy bench this to pick the Super-yacht’s wi-fi from Jack, imagine being stuck out on a mooring’

      ‘No thanks, a couple of months of that remoteness would be a killer for me’

      ‘Oh yes, they’re very smart, heart breakers too, time for a loan and some new clothes Jack, as I’ve no cards, no passport either, well one that I get by with in ports is not suitable for suitable for scanning at airports’

      ‘You can always get back into the Uk with your original expired one, but most likely arrested on entry though’

      ‘I know, exiled, but a very nice place to exiled in, they’ll have to make it down here when the airlines have sorted out their new roles, halving the planes capacity and doubling the prices makes economic sense, its no longer a price competitive market, it’s one of survival’

      ‘Reduce your fleet by fifty per cent and still have the same revenue, more profit with less overheads too, I reckon people will pay double, they’ll just go on less holidays, the frequent flyer will be history’

      ‘Of course they will, just stay longer Jack, not good for plane builders as they’ll be so many  grounded’

      ‘So, do you recognise any of these attached names to the the photos?’

      ‘No, I do remember some Italian girls in my last year on the track who were kinda of special, they hung out at Monaco, Brands Hatch, Geneva, Rio and Roma of course’

      ‘That’s a fair amount of races to turn up at’

      ‘I suppose it was, I remember them having tantalisingly long legs as these girls have in their online photos, their mothers will know of course, admitting to this is another matter though, no doubt all happily married now as is the Italian way, families are all important in Italy’

      ‘They’ll make their own way here I should think’

      ‘An arranged rendez-vous is needed in that event, or the English police force will come breezing down to this island wasting tax payers money. I’ll pay up when there’s enough revenue but that’s a maybe for I’ll need to generate or you will in fact the amount of around 35 million for half will go in tax and the remainder of it to pay the debt off’

      ‘Not forgetting that a genuine deal is arranged in the first place with The UK tax accepting such a proposal’

      ‘Of course there maybe some other violations when in Vegas, not that I remember any’

      ‘Do you remember much of this fourteen day extravaganza yet, would be good to kick off the second volume with it, you’d most likely will have teamed up with a lady so she would be highly constructive with the story’

      ‘Could have, I could have shot someone too, even raped someone. I was out of my skull a couple of hours after I got there, then I came round arriving in LAX and my bank cards were working so I checked my accounts and they were zero, I had twenty thousand on one card owing and my second one still had five thousand left to use so I got a rental at the airport and drove to Orlando where found a boat of mine which I’d purchased the previous year for chilling and slumming it in the Bermuda atols, then sailed down here.’

      ‘They’ve made many films about this, but this time what happened in Vegas needs to get its arse down here as its valuable material for the story.’

      ‘Can’t you make it up as you’re a story writer, there’s over forty of yours online, some quite long ones, so your imagination is not lacking’

      ‘Some credence is needed to substantiate it all, with the success of the first volume, the second one needs to be tight with the facts and true so wild conjecture is out, real people I expect will come out of the woodwork with what actually happened.’

      ‘Definitely more ladies’

      ‘Yep,  during a fortnight of wildness and orgies in Vegas  you could have fathered a girls soccer team, I’m just assuming girls as they appear to be natural with you as we’re looking at three now.’

      ‘I should get back in the saddle after a twenty year sabbatical, initiate something to give them some direction.’

      ‘I’m sure the Dorian car division would welcome that, especially with these three girls at your side, they’re not lacking in appeal’

      ‘These three could already have connections with the Dorian industries’

      ‘That’s something their mothers would have not bragged about as you would have steered well clear of getting caught up in family affairs and businesses that some families tend to attract.’

      ‘Too right, Italian families are very different, not the one to get caught up in as they take you over, large Sunday gatherings for one, bossy mothers and grandmothers intent on having grandchildren on the scene’

      ‘Not the one with you, one girl would have been preferable to live a normal life, not three plus, so the Vegas trip and events there appears as if it was a pre-planned destiny for you for it caused you to disappear, lie low like the real pirates of old used to here in the Caribbean.’

      ‘That hasn’t occurred to me, but I’m not a novelist either whose attracted to such avenues, but makes sense as the alternative would have been mayhem. Variety is the spice of life for a man, not so sure with that on the woman front for there make up is so different from ours.’

      ‘You were the exciting, successful, handsome and fit guy for a girl to bang, so no responsibility as they were pursuing you’

      ‘I see your point, they were enough beauties hanging out around the race track to invigorate you’

      ‘I think that stimulus was meant to be put into your driving skills’

      ‘Oh it did, those girls would brighten up any dull day, kick the adrenaline in and sharpen up one’s senses before jumping into the race car, the best lookers wanting to bang the first guy over the line’

      ‘Aren’t they referred to as race skanks.’

      ‘I’m not sure, that’s a USA term I believe, so now you’ve resurrected me somewhat brilliantly Jack, where and what to do next’

      ‘Let everybody come to you which they will judging by the initial response of your memoirs and avoid the law until your situation has been straightened out’

      ‘A lawyer?’

      ‘Oh definitely one of those, any sign of a possible court hearing and the law will be out for blood as you’re high profile, which makes you notorious and news worthy for the hounds, bad people make for good news sales, good ones don’t, the readers browse over the latter and regard them as lucky sods’

      ‘There’s little interest in lottery winners, commit a murder or murders then you’re top news’

      ‘Robbing banks is another one, people are attracted to villainy, your non payment of tax has that appeal of villainy, though people don’t approve they secretly wish It was them who had the balls to do it’

      ‘Mine was self inflicted’

      ‘In a way, you were a hero that went off the rails for a short time and lost all; so appealing to women as they find lost souls endearing which gives them cause to romanticise saving and sorting you out’

      ‘We don’t’

      'Not unless you're a priest, lost souls are his job’

      ‘There’s plenty of those around, we find lots of lost souls in the bars’

      ‘We do Jack, so it would be interesting to know how many women bought the book’

      ‘That Jimmy I expect will be over eighty per cent, instant curiosity with the mysteries behind the scenes which resulted in your disappearance as such, its easily summed by a couple of Mickey’s in a Vegas bar sending you to your own black hole in life and were eventually spat out the other end upon which you took off to the Caribbean on your volition’

      ‘People don’t regard black holes in that way, that’s clever’

        ‘We were formed from out of this Cosmos somehow, or maybe several Cosmoses, so if space can have them so can humans, we’re all part of the same thing’

        ‘Our minds are complex, oh we need an air-conditioned bar and I think we’re in luck as somebody is waving to us from the super-yacht.’

      ‘My phone is on so we could have been located.’

        ‘That would be Dorian Industries I would think, they’ll be in the know of persons able to do that’

        ‘I expect they would being Italian, putting a trace on a cell phone and locating it, maybe they’ll charter this super yacht for you. I’d just love a whole night’s sleep without having to change a towel halfway through on the bunk after one’s sweat has dampened it.’

        ‘Dual purpose Beach towels’

      ‘Essential for the boats, Jimmy,’   

        Chapter Five  On the neighbouring Super yacht along the quay.

        ‘Hi you guys, I’m the ship’s captain, Carl, you’ve been using our wi-fi so as its satellite system on the yacht it’s been easy to track your location’

      ‘That’s me, Jack, I was using it for Jimmy’s book download and subsequent communications, Gail gave me the key’

        ‘She told me, that’s fine as few are using it so we’re nowhere near reaching the allocated allowance, so you’re the famous Jimmy Dunstain, the memoirs that Jack produced could easily outsell JF Rowlings creation, superb timing for a release as there is zero news and a load of old news being resurrected.’

        ‘I’m fresh news’

        ‘You certainly are Jimmy, we’re picking up on the news on satellite and you two are devoid of any news with this lockdown, there’s interest in your last activities in Vegas twenty years ago, a jewel heist, bank robbery and gambling away a fortune in an attempt to be the biggest successful roller there’s ever been on the Strip’

        ‘I liked an adrenaline filled life back then, I was first to make the one hundred club on the race circuit I believe.’

      ‘Female conquests?’

      ‘Oh they were as equally willing, even more so in some cases Carl.’

      ‘You obviously liked winning, In Vegas the consensus is that you were somewhat influenced by drugs, extenuating your liking for life on the edge.’

      ‘Another was to sail single around the world twice in the shortest time, infinitely more exciting surfing down the rollers infinitely than rolling dice enticing lady luck to come my way ’

      ‘A double circumnavigation, how about space’

      ‘I did want a trip to the moon Carl, do what Armstrong did, to have a drive in a space buggy in zero gravity would have been enthralling’

      ‘Even a race on the moon, a new formulae one event, one circuit around the moon and the first to touch back down on this planet wins.’

      ‘Oh his second volume is in the planning, that’s a good concept for a Hollywood blockbuster though Captain Carl.’

        ‘One of your supposed offspring Grandmother’s, Jimmy, has offered to charter this yacht for you, but I would suggest against travelling to Europe as is her wish, Catania in Sicily was suggested due to the unknown factors in Vegas of your