IN COURSE OF PREPARATION
Line of Dissent
Line of Dissent:
Two golfers are playing a round at a Melbourne golf course when they are shot at by a sniper. Investigation indicates the shots came from a knot of trees alongside one of the fairways. Several days later one of the players, Philip Meredith, is nearly run down in the street, and a few days after that he is again shot at whilst on a sales trip in a country area of Victoria. Being an upright citizen with, he believes, no enemies he is utterly perplexed by these attacks.
During one of the attacks he hears one of his given names mentioned by one of his attackers, which indicates he is definitely their selected target, but why?
Then he receives a message from a stranger who says he has the answer to the mystery, but during their meeting they realise they are both at risk.
There is an exciting chase as they are pursued through country Victoria to the outer suburbs of Melbourne by an organization that is determined to kill them both. Meredith has to reach London, alive, before everything can be resolved.
Doubt of the Benefit
Doubt of the Benefit:
Geoff Miller is a Melbourne based insurance claims adjuster who investigates claims on behalf of insurers, including surveillance on Workers Compensation cases where it is suspected claimants are rorting the system by being employed elsewhere whilst claiming benefits. False claimants, working on second jobs, are often filmed during these investigations. During the course of one of these surveillance investigations he falls foul of the police who arrest him as a suspected “Peeping Tom”. This misunderstanding causes severe problems for Miller later.
During a subsequent investigation, Miller follows a suspected fraudulent claimant to a remote country property in northern Victoria. From a distant vantage point he films the claimant who, with others, is negotiating a military style obstacle course in a paddock. At this point he realises he has stumbled across a terrorist group, too late as they catch him in the act of filming.
After capture he realises they will not let him go alive. He escapes, with the intention of alerting the authorities, but his previous brush with the police when they thought he was a “Peeping Tom” complicates the issue as they don’t believe him.
His strange disappearance concerns his employers who contact ASIO, who are already following leads indicating an imminent terror attack but they don’t know where or when.
ASIO, Geoff Miller and the police combine to thwart the terrorist plans, after many setbacks and inspired investigation work.
