Desert England by David Williams

Author:David Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: detective, fiction, crime, football, hooliganism, hooligan, soccer, sport, violence, organised crime
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2011
Published: 2011-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The weekend was spent in the Pheasant Hotel where Milton had decided to stay for the time being rather than move into an apartment. He was confident that by remaining in a hotel his phone calls couldn’t be monitored and he regularly swept his room for listening devices.

Jacks and his army were true professionals and he couldn’t afford to leave anything to chance.

Milton couldn’t get his head around the fact that he was now earning 50,000 quid per year tax free. How on earth could Jacks afford it? There certainly wasn’t enough revenue coming through Expatriatedotcom to pay all that money to so many men.

It was not surprising that the men were so happy. Not one of them was paying taxes, so they were pocketing more money than the average cabinet minister.

The mathematics just didn’t add up. Milton would somehow have to tap into the financial records of the company, but only one man was in control of them and that was Jacks.

“Jacks runs the whole financial side of the company. We’re just happy picking up our bucks at the end of the month and he hasn’t let any of us down yet,” Stardust had said earlier in the week.

Milton was invited to spend a wild weekend away with a few of the lads from the company, but decided he wanted to get things straight in his own mind. The whole situation was moving along at an alarming pace and he wanted to go over all the events of the past two weeks to ensure he was still in control.

France was just three weeks away and surely they would be planning their operation soon. Maybe they had started it already.

Milton had been in Dubai now for three weeks and, despite the initial culture shock, he was enjoying his time there. The city had so much to offer and he thrived in the climate.

Most of the weekend’s mulling was done by the hotel pool and his occasional trip out of the hotel was to the magical souks and markets sprinkled across the city.

He scarcely thought of the wife and kids back home and each time he tried to call he reached the answering machine. His private life appeared to be in tatters but out here it didn’t matter. He had struck up new friendships and was earning more money than he could ever possibly hope to achieve in the force.

Life was getting a little too cosy for Milton in Dubai, a fact that he was reminded of in a telephone conversation with Waite.

“How are things going?” asked Milton over the phone.

“Very well, sir, but the chief is getting anxious,” he replied.

“What do you mean?”

“He wants you here, sir. They all want you here.”

“Waite, I’m relying on you. You’ve got to be a reassuring figure. If I leave Dubai now we will never get to the bottom of this. They are planning something big, Waite, for France and, believe me, we will be helpless to stop it unless I’m on the inside.

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