The Trapdoor blog is an insight into the author’s research in developing this exciting novel. Some pages from the original storybook are included in the blog with occasional handwritten notations.
The blogs allow the reader, if they choose, to move between the book and research within the blogs, by clicking on the links and delving into the material to enhance experience of locations and plots within the novel. (Images in the blog are place markers only.)
After the disaster in Amsterdam, Helen Carnegie relocated her office to Frankfurt.
We’re going to Berlin for a few days.’
Billie had a detailed plan that involved a car ride to Caen, train to Paris, taxi to Orly Airport
Caen Railway station
Orly Airport
On arriving in Berlin, Alex was taken aside for questioning
Berlin became a blur of bars, restaurants and nightclubs
Alex disembarked and immediately picked up two tails.
Plan B began immediately. Alex caught a flight to Rome. From Rome, he took a flight to Athens
‘Alex, that jet ski is coming straight at us.’
The jet ski circled the cruiser, then came in fast from the bow.
The first shot ripped apart the fiberglass and plastic fuselage of the jet ski, igniting its fuel; a huge fireball enveloped the jet ski as it exploded.
A few minutes later, Billie spotted the body;
They arrived at the mouth of the river to a police cordon
Andrew Dyhin 