Raiders of the Lost Car Park by Rankin Robert

Author:Rankin, Robert [Rankin, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Humor
ISBN: 9780552138338
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1994-01-01T15:00:00+00:00

‘Who said I was wary?’

‘Careful then. It must be a bit of a responsibility. I know, if I were in your, er, sandals, I wouldn’t fancy trying it out without my supervisor present.’

‘I am fully capable of using it. I did it at in-house training.’

‘Of course you did. But I can understand you being nervous.

‘I’m not nervous.

‘It probably doesn’t work anyway.’

‘Of course it works.’

‘Sure it does. I bet.’

‘It does work and I’m not nervous about using it.’

‘I’ll come back tomorrow and speak to your supervisor,’ said Polly. ‘I expect she’s a woman. She’ll have the bottle to try it out. Always best to go straight to the top. Cut out the unambitious technophobes who don’t want the glory of being the first to make a placement with such hi-tech equipment. Men have sight; women insight — to quote Victor Hugo. So long, Cohn.’ Polly turned upon her heel.

Mr Coffins dithered. He hadn’t understood half she’d said. But he got the general gist. ‘Just you come back here,’ he said.

Polly watched him as he worried at the computer keyboard. Her mother had told her, as she had told her sister Anna, that all men were basically stupid. And she, like her sister, would pass this information on to daughters of her own one day.

‘Eureka!’ said Colin. suddenly.

‘Eureka?’

‘Eureka. It was an LNER passenger train. Classic 4-6-2 arrangement. Four-wheel bogie in front, six coupled driving wheels and a pair of trailing wheels. Eureka.’

‘It’s Greek to me.’

‘It’s a perfect match.’ Mr Collins was looking quite excited. ‘On the computer. The job just came up this very minute. And your qualifications match it exactly.’

Coincidence? Synchronicity? The steam-driven bogie truck of destiny?

‘It’s at Buckingham Palace,’ said Colin. ‘Personal assistant to His Royal Highness Prince Charles.’

The bogie truck has it!

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