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.)
CHAPTER 12
Games of pétanque
The blackberries had begun to ripen on the canes in the laneways
Link
Calais and the Channel Tunnel
Public phone in Soho
when Paris Café Orbital and Internet Cafe
Amsterdam
False passports and ID
They found themselves confronted by a large white unmarked van
They turned to find three men approaching
Two armed policemen were rapidly approaching
‘Run,’ whispered Alex. The world was a blur around them — canals, bicycles, people.
In the Washington control room, Helen Carnegie was frantically looking at the reports coming in from Amsterdam.
Billie had red shoulder length hair and wore glasses with emerald coloured rims
The village of Le Vivier-sur-Mer
On the way in, they had noticed the patisserie less than five minutes’ walk from their house
The ‘Restaurant de la mer’ became their local favourite place for eating seafood
Le Mont Saint Michel
Original story book file
There was no jetty, so Alex and Billie had to balance on a small plank to get onto the tender without sinking into deep mud at the edge of the water.
Big Change II.
Andrew Dyhin 