Running Scared by joe mcnally & Richard Pitman

Author:joe mcnally & Richard Pitman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: joe mcnally

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Among Broga’s interests in Barbados was a marine transport business which sailed regularly between there and Britain with various cargoes including bloodstock. Broga would send British bought horses over to race on the island. The standard of competition was lower than the UK and his trainer there had been turning out a steady stream of winners.

He had a big estate on Barbados most of it covered by sugarcane which was processed in a factory he also owned. The five hundred acre plantation ran alongside a new training complex housing twenty-three of his horses.

On April 14th, the main house at the Plantation burnt down. The fire was blamed on a smouldering cigarette end. Okay, said Broga, just another unfortunate incident but fifteen days later, in the early hours of April 29th, an explosion at the sugar-processing factory caused several hundred thousand pounds worth of damage. That was put down to a faulty fuel pump. The only good news was that no one had been badly injured.

But between England and the Caribbean that made five very costly blows to Broga in around ten weeks and he was finally beginning to suspect a personal vendetta. On May 1st, all doubt was removed when Broga’s trainer in Barbados received a phone call saying he’d better leave the island in the next forty-eight hours or he’d never leave it alive.

That’s when Broga called in a firm of private investigators.

During this period, there’d been no movement on the Conway case. Despite the police alerting Interpol and McCarthy utilizing all of his international racing contacts, there hadn’t been a whisper about Conway. The prospect of him having been genuinely abducted and maybe even killed was becoming more believable.

Broga Cates knew all the details of the Conway case, he’d insisted one evening that I entertain him with the full story which I did on the promise he’d keep it to himself until Conway turned up.

On May 20th with the jump season cantering lazily into its final few days, Broga rang me. ‘Eddie, remember that tale you told me about your guy Conway?’

‘I do.’

‘I’ve pulled together a little story of my own that might interest you. Want to join me for dinner tomorrow?’

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