Smokescreen

Written 15 years ago, when I hadn't a clue what I was doing. I met the Nanowrimo novel in a month challenge with it. What's quite interesting is where I missed the mark in describing a dystopian 2015-ish Britain, and where I didn't.
Anyway, here it is with the awful typesetting corrected a bit at a time, but otherwise unadulterated.
 

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Smokescreen

Believe it or not, I wrote this as part of Nanowrimo 2007. This is Chapter One. A then near future dystopic policier where smoking was completely banned, like prohibition for liquor. You'll probably find this a bit dull, but by chapter three or four I think it has a bit of pull. Maybe I'll post those too. Here is the blurb from when I self-pubbed it badly at Bubok Prohibition: not booze, fags. Ray and Harry get wind of a lorry-load of illegal cigarettes and decide to hi-jack it at the point of delivery. Just outside Parliament. Ray and Harry recognise one of the customers. It's the Home Secretary. What can they do? A slightly revised version will be available on smashwords, eventually.
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Smokescreen Chapter 2

A vip under caution... Image made by me form PD elements in Canva.
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Smokescreen Chapter 3

An encounter with Elvis... not that one. Picture is just an illustration of a random pop-culture reference that no-one will get. Image source is wikipedia. Image included for educational purposes.
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Smokescreen Chapter 4

A quiet drink in The Number 6 Image licence CCA-SA 4.0 Int. image creator Lorelei Gomez
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Smokescreen Chapter 5

Bored yet? Really? Oh, well, there's time yet. Image by Tiia Monto CC-SA 3.0 licence source, wikipedia commons.
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Smokescreen Chapter 6

Chapter Six... DI Murray is an alcoholic, you get that, right? Base image by Mark Ahsmann CC-SA 3.0 Licence, source wikipedia commons.
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Smokescreen Chapter 7

The car and plenty of rubber abandoned in front of the Station, I bounded up the steps, almost bowled McCrackers over on the other side of the door...
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Smokescreen Chapter 8

This is the last chapter I'm posting here. Smokescreen is available at Amazon.co.uk link at foot of this chapter. I did the book cover.