THE THESEUS PARADOX: The stunning breakthrough thriller based on real events, from the Scotland Yard detective turned author. by David Videcette

Author:David Videcette [Videcette, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: No. 30, Subway, Jake, Victim, Scotland Yard, London Underground, Police, England, Flannagan, 7/7, Muslim, British, thriller, Bus, Religion, Terrorism, Tube, Tavistock Square, Extremism, Metropolitan Police, Detective, Fundamentalist, Conspiracy Theory, Britain, Bombings, Explosion, London, Bomb, Crime, Terrorist, Extremist, July 2005, Islam, Inspector, Murder, Islamic, Bus Bomb, Plot, Underground, 7th July, Number 30 (bus), Capital, Fundamentalism, terror
ISBN: 9780993426308
Publisher: VIDECETTE LIMITED
Published: 2015-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

70

Friday

19 August 2005

1845 hours

The Trafalgar, King’s Road, Chelsea

As the number of pint and shot glasses on the table grew, the pub got busier and noisier. Jake’s head was beginning to feel a bit fuzzy. He looked down at his watch. They’d been drinking and talking about the problem they both had in common – women – for nearly two hours.

Zarshad set two fresh pints down on the table among the pile of empty glasses, before returning to the bar to collect two shot glasses of something strong, dark coloured and medicinal smelling. He passed one to Jake.

Jake held it aloft and said, ‘To the absent and the dead. Gone but never forgotten. To family!’

‘They certainly need me to drink to them!’ toasted Zarshad in agreement. He threw back the glass, slamming the liquid to the back of his throat.

‘I’ve never heard you talk about your parents, Zarshad. They alive?’

‘My mum passed away when I was young. My dad’s alive, I think – I haven’t seen him in ten years.’

‘Wow. Why’s that?’

‘My fucking father and bloody Tablighi Jamaat. He’s very religious. He doesn’t agree with my lifestyle – the drinking, the women, the drugs. But he’s the reason I am the way I am. He spent his life ramming Islam down all of our throats. He made me learn the Quran, verse by verse, from a baby. Fucking years and years of it there was. I think the first words I said were out the Holy Book. He wanted me to follow a particularly strict sect of Islam. Then when I was eighteen, he organised a marriage to my cousin… I wouldn’t have minded too much but she was a fat ugly bitch!

‘I caused a major family upset when I refused to follow him down the same religious path and marry her. It’s all about money. Her brother was supposed to marry my sister. My father was getting a small fortune for her in dowry money and was paying fuck all for me marrying the ugly bitch. All this religion and it was just a frigging business agreement. The business just happened to be family.

‘I told him and his religion to go fuck themselves. That’s why I choose to live my hedonistic lifestyle, I suppose. I’m still rebelling.’

Zarshad picked up his pint and held it up for another toast. He looked across at Jake and nodded at him to do the same. Jake complied.

‘And prepare against them whatever you are able, of power and of steeds of war, by which you may terrify the enemy,’ Zarshad said.

Jake looked at him confused but swigged from his pint all the same.

Zarshad explained, ‘Chapter 8:60, from the Quran, or part of it. I’m at war with my bloody father and this beer is my power over him who is the enemy.’

Jake suddenly had Wasim’s video in his head. He could see the cartoon clock showing 8.50 a.m. The bombs had started to go off at 0850 hours.

‘What does Chapter 8:50 say, Zarshad?’

Zarshad looked at the ceiling and scrunched up his face, willing himself to remember.

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