Below you'll find the opening scenes in Scorpions - followed by three more complete scenes, Wadi, Overhangs and Dead Man's Pool. To complement these, on the right, a selection of smaller snapshots featuring a few more of the main characters. All will open in a new window and are very small PDF files that can be easily saved to disk.
scorpions
Lox Lennox merging with his environment the way he'd been trained, a shadow amongst shadows and primary senses on red alert as he recalls his instructor's maxim that to move is to die. Three days later Duncan Ker returns home from Thailand to visit his comatose brother and his whole world begins to unravel. Read Sample.
Overhangs
There's an old Border saying that 'all is fish that comes to the hook'. Fin, though, is no ordinary catch - nor your average eco-warrior. But then lurking beneath Tweed's exclusive fishing beats waiting for the rich to cast their flies isn't exactly an act of revolutionary defiance. Until, that is, someone starts fishing with hand-grenades. Read Sample.
Wadi
Lox and Gary Hall burying cars down on the conservation site. Lox having a hard time making Gary take him seriously, having to resort to gunplay to get his point across. Was it always like this? Read Sample.
Dead Man's Pool
Even Tweed rises up against those who would exploit her. As the downpour continues and the flood warnings mount it's probably not the best time to be cuffed to a cop and stranded midstream. But then murder suspects can't always be choosers. Read Sample.
