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Authors: Tim Arnot
WANTED. Flick Carter #1
Meet Flick Carter. She's sixteen. They say she
murdered
her family.
She
didn't
.
They're gonna hang her anyway.
98,000 words. Available from
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HUNTED. Flick Carter #2
There's a killer on the loose and he's after the princess.
Only seventeen year old Flick Carter stands in his way...
97,000 words. Available from
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SOCKO’S FIRST DAY
Socko Garrett is just an ordinary kid from the Projects. Sure, he doesn’t have much in the way of prospects, but he never expects to be forced into the Watch. And it’s all the fault of that red-haired woman. Now he has woken up in jail. Surely it can’t get any worse, can it? For Socko, no matter what happens, this is his first day…
12,000 words. Available from
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SOCKO’S FIRST CASE
It’s Christmas Eve and there’s trouble in the capital. A body has been found in the Chapter House, and the large chest of ceremonial gold coins which the king normally distributes to the poor on Boxing Day has gone missing.
Newly-qualified Kingsman, Socko Garrett has just joined the Special Investigations unit (KSI), along with Corporal Dan Barnes. But with heightened security for the king’s visit, and their lieutenant called away for other duties, it’s up to Socko and Barnes to catch the killer and find the money, and they’ve got less than 48 hours before the king arrives…
14,000 words. Available from
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SOCKO’S FIRST FIRE
The ultimate crossover! In the small town of Faringdon, a young girl is about to be hanged for a murder she didn’t commit. Kingsman Socko Garret and Corporal Dan Barnes are sent on a mission to save the girl and investigate the crime. But when they arrive, things are not what they expect…
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
IN THE year it took from the first inkling of an idea to the last save of the final edit, many people have provided inspiration, encouragement, advice, criticism, cups of tea / coffee / something stronger. Some of you know who you are, others have no idea, and so I’ll start by thanking the latter. Suzanne Collins, whose fault ultimately this book is, since if she hadn’t written
The Hunger Games
, I would never have gotten into an “I can do that” wager, and this book wouldn’t have been written. Mur Lafferty of the
I should be Writing
podcast, for reminding me of exactly that. Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal & Howard Tayler of
Writing Excuses
for all sorts of thoughts and odd tangents. I’d also like to thank my beta readers, the awesome Kath Middleton, D.D. Chant, David Staniforth, Janet, Nicky Wilson, Rob Triggs, Kathryn Wills, Dave Richardson, Sue Shaw, Duncan Turner, Jan Greenough and all at Abingdon Writers and AB-FAG, for pointing out (sometimes harshly) things that were not as they should be.
Many thanks to the following people who have found and reported typos, spelling mistakes and so forth in the finished book. They are also in with a chance to appear as a character in the next book in the series.
Ian Melville, Matt Tidbury, Kat Steiner
Special thanks to Andy Barrett, a real-life CSI for technical advice on certain aspects of this story.
If you like what you’ve read, please consider telling your friends and family about this book.
For more information about this book and the Flick Carter series, go to
https://www.facebook.com/WantedFlickCarter
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tim Arnot claims to remember the Sixties, although that almost certainly means he wasn’t there. In his defence though, he does claim to have been very small. He had a college education from which he spectacularly failed to get any qualifications at all. But that didn’t stop him from going on to be a successful writer of programs for computers and apps for iThings (if you buy a train ticket in the UK from one of those touchy-feely machines, there’s a good chance that Tim wrote the software inside it–unless it screwed up, in which case it was someone else).
At school, his teachers described him as “Quite good at English.”
Tim lives in Oxfordshire with his kindle and a collection of iThings.
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