The Messiah's hand
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She moved over to check the answering machine,as if in a world of her own.She fidgeted with the buttons,and cringed as the message tape screeched to the beginning.She couldn't bear the sound;it was worse than fingernails on a blackboard.
"You have one message," came the authoritative,automated voice-over,"Saturday, March 17 th,6.16pm,"then there was the pronounced beep,and a Darth Vader-deep,contorted voice burst forth out of the depths of Hades,breaking the preceding static background silence."If you wanna see Oscar Silver alive,you pay us 1 million;you got 24 hours,the clock starts now! We'll call again.You go to the law, an'he's dead,"and the phone went down with a click.
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On a seemingly ordinary Monday morning,an office secretary at Trusthouse,a reputable New Zealand Insurance firm,is astounded when she checks her answering machine. A blood-curdling,anonymous voice has left a message on the tape sometime over the weekend,informing her that her millionaire boss,Oscar Silver,has been kidnapped and is being held to ransom.
The information given is very curt.
The Insurance company president’s life is now for sale...The price-tag is one million NZ dollars,and the time limit,24 hours!
The voice was explicit- no police involvement or the old man prematurely meets his maker!
The old man’s life is now thrust irrevocably into the nervous hands of his naturally tight-fisted eldest son,Isaac. At his wits end,Silver’s eldest son and Trusthouse second-in-command,is now asking himself some frightening questions: Just how serious are the unknown assailants? Just how far are they prepared to go? Can Trusthouse afford to pay up? Can they afford not to? And just exactly, how far is Isaac prepared to go to find out?
Is he willing to gamble,wager with his father’s life or will he quickly cough up the dough?
About the Author
Chris Knight is from New Zealand.A history graduate,he teaches English as a second language in Japan,where he has lived for 20 years.
He enjoys reading history,literature and theology.He also enjoys creative writing,and has a love and appreciation for all the performing arts.