The Nanny State has truly arrived, education is the best in Europe, the Hospitals are all firmly in the hands of MATRON and even the trains run on time.

However all is not well and certain factions are not happy with the continued absence of a Royal Family and the dissolution of the Establishmment. No longer able to influence anyone higher than a CORGI-registered plumber, the last remaining bastion of the House of Windsor looks to Scotland (still running under the old order) for help and finds it under the newly re-formed Banner of Montrose.

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First published 2007 ISBN 0-9551510-2-6 £8.99

Edwin Snipe is 24, male and the pampered playmate of Clarris Sharpe, the aptly named Minister of Home Affairs. His only role in life is to satisfy the needs of his employer - anywhere, any place, any time - a role he fills perfectly until the fateful day that the black sheep of his family tracks him down and spontaneously combusts in front of him.

Edwin suddenly finds himself in trouble with the police, the press and a particularly murderous individual known only as Mr Warwick.

In mortal danger Edwin flees London in the company of investigative journalist Mavis Wordsworth onboard a 42ft canal barge. His goal is to reach Scotland in time to find out who killed his Uncle Tobias and why.

On the Way he meets Murdock the only occasionally sober cartoonist, a psychotic duck called Erik, an assortment of underground fighters, fish-slappers, foul and midnight hags and the Isle of Man Government's version of the Spanish Inquisition.

Linda Mann worked in the offshore finance sector for ten years until settling on the Isle of Man where she is now married with three children. She was a member of the Isle of Man Arts council and Chairman of the Film and Literature panel for four years but she now concentrates on writing, including skits for the satirical news programme ‘The Headlines Again’ on Manx Radio. She has written four supernatural crime novels – Mist, The Tidemaster, The Corsican Trap and Mr Boots – available or forthcoming from Priory Press.

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