Sovereigns of the Collapse Book 4 by Malcolm J Wardlaw

Author:Malcolm J Wardlaw [Malcolm]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Malcolm J Wardlaw
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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‘Making history’ was a matter of guiding events. To guide events one must possess the right secrets and sufficient military power. Of course, the opposition understood this too. The opposition knew the location of the Value System—but how?

The only person who could have led outsiders to the Value System was Lawrence Aldingford, but how could he have known where it was? The Value System could not be seen from the sea, unless the observer came close inshore where they risked running aground or their boat being observed. No aircraft ever came near, as The Wash was far west of any air routes. Nightminster pulled the Value System’s copy of Aldingford’s personnel file out of one of the filing cabinets in his office. He read through Aldingford’s file, pausing for a while at the period when he was a first sergeant based at Peterborough. The town lay almost thirty miles away across some of the emptiest areas of the fens. This did not in itself explain anything. Convoys on the Norwich to Nottingham drain had passed within four miles of the Value System for the last thirty-three years without ever having had the slightest inkling of its existence. Might Aldingford have recognised the refuge tower with its number? It was possible. Even if he had, and then by a miracle reached Peterborough, how had he avoided being caught there? Nightminster had circulated a reward poster in the town and alerted the local ultramarine owner. How had Aldingford travelled the hundred miles from Peterborough to London?

The damned bastard must have hidden wings, and he was far from being an angel; Aldingford was a top killer too. Oh yes, he had his secrets.

Nightminster collected the files of the other five escaped value: Bomber, Puma, Dancer, Mirror-Face and Spiderman. The remaining eighteen hundred or so he ordered thrown on the lively blaze in the courtyard. After this, he sat for a while, thinking. With the Value System destroyed, what remained were testimonies in the heads of surviving witnesses. In theory, six witnesses would provide credible evidence through independent interrogations. In practice, the Value System was being demolished and its population would not survive long besieged by the marsh people. Ruins tell no tales. The testimony of six commoners could never challenge the political, commercial and social force of the Corporation of the Protectorate and its plinth, the Ultramarine Guild.

Whereas, Lawrence Aldingford had an elder brother called Donald, against whom there existed damning scientific evidence for the killing of Julius Shellingfield. Donald Aldingford’s very public trial would generate more than enough noise to smother any vicious slurs coming up from the gutter...

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