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Rosa Bodran is in a rush as usual.
The ferocious weather is doing everything it can to prevent her getting on with her day.
A strange man offers her a virtual reality shopping experience, guaranteeing it will be quicker, easier and cheaper than her usual family shop.
It'll mean she can pick up her kids on time, despite the freezing hail and wind.
But all is not as it seems.
Futuristic shopping might not be the solution to Rosa's problems.
It could put everything she cares for at risk.
Dive into this mystery futurist thriller, and face some of the deepest question about how you want your own future to look like.
From the award winning author of Portico and The Illustrator's Daughter, comes a short book that shows this challenging writer at the cutting edge of what he does.
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Acknowledgments
To Nikki McCarthy
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This book was only possible thanks to my valued Alpha and Beta readers who continue to support my work. And thanks to the wider independent writing community, of which I’m delighted to be a part.
Thanks also to Andy MacDonald and Kay Barrett for eagle eye proofreading. If you find any latent errors, please do email me at [email protected]
The Who’s In Control? series covers were designed by Caroline Teagle Johnson, to whom I offer many thanks.
About the Author
Gideon Burrows is an award winning fiction and non-fiction writer.
He is author of the Who's In Control? series of novels, which aim to challenge the reader into considering what they would do in a terrifying or challenging situation. They include The Spiral, The Illustrator's Daughter, Portico, and Future Shop. He's currently working on the fifth book in the series.
Gideon was semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards for his social media thriller Portico, and winner of the Writing Magazine Self Published Book Award for his first non-fiction book, Men Can Do it: Why Men Don’t Do Childcare.
He can be found at www.gideon-burrows.com, where you can join his mailing list and download the free book, Martin & Me, a difficult tale of a personal relationships, spying and the arms trade.
Age 13, Gideon thought he was going either going to be a writer or a ninja. His parents bought him a typewriter rather than a set of nunchucks, so that was that decided.
He trained as a journalist and spent 10 years writing for major UK newspapers and magazines.
Gideon is a qualified bicycle mechanic, a keen road cyclist and a fan of professional cycling. His fastest time for a 10 mile time trial is 25 minutes, dead on; and the climb of Sa Colobra in Majorca a not too bad 38 minutes, 28 seconds.
Not that he’s counting.
Under a pen name, Gideon is writing a series of ninja themed action novels. His knowledge of the ancient ninja path may yet prevail...
The Spiral
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Copyright © Gideon Burrows
2021
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All rights reserved. No part of this book maybe reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing of the publisher.
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This book is entirely a work of fiction, and any likenesses to people, places and events are entirely co-incidental.
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