The plot is about a drunken student, Rhoda, who drives her car into oncoming traffic, killing a woman and her child and injuring her husband. Four years later having served time in prison Rhoda tracks down the husband, John, with the intention of apologizing.  John doesn’t recognize Rhoda and a relationship of sorts develops.  At the same time another planet is discovered, an exact replica of earth and its inhabitants. But this other earth is really only a background to the story.  Although clearly a low budget movie, the acting and production was good.  The material was a bit dark for the festive season so see the film when you’re in the right mood for it.

First go to http://leatherbound.me/   Then enter an author name or title in the search box. This will return books available on Kindle, Nook and iBookstore in the United States. If you click on the iBookstore entry you will get a page with an address something like
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-banker/id484082537?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

To find the iBookstore entry for other countries just replace the ‘us’ above with the country code. So for the United Kingdom the link in the above example will be

http://itunes.apple.com/uk/book/the-banker/id484082537?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

There are probably other ways of doing this, but the above worked for me.

It’s available as paperback from on-line stores, including Amazon, at 7.99 pounds in the UK.

It’s also available as an ebook from Amazon Kindle store and the Apple iBookstore.  Its priced in UK at 1.99 pounds, in the US at $2.99 and 2.99 euros in euroland.

I won’t compromise national security by describing the spook or exactly the route we took. Of course the individual may not have been a spook – it could have been a visiting plumber or cleaner.

I tailed the spook as far as redacted station, and followed the spook at a very brisk pace onto platform redacted. There were several people on the platform so I was able to get to within 30 yards of the spook, who looked in my general direction but showed no reaction. The train, heading for redacted, arrived and at the last minute the spook moved 2 carriages down – was this evasive action? I just managed to get in the same carriage and was able to have visual contact with the spook. I had a Travelcard so as long as we were within the Greater London area I could play this game. At redacted station the spook got off – I was able to follow despite the brisk pace but the station was very crowded and I soon lost the target.

Not a great job, still I’m an amateur and the spook a professional.

The Banker is being published as a paperback print on demand as well as an e-book.  The jacket design , copy editing and proof reading have all been done and the book should be published in early December.