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    Black Ice
    Black Ice
    Black Ice
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    Black Ice

    By Anna Reith

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    Rookie trucker Jack is stoked for his first solo trip on the Arctic Road. But, out there on the ice, there are things that shouldn't exist outside of stories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrith Books
    Release dateMay 11, 2012
    ISBN9781907623363
    Black Ice
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    Anna Reith

    Anna Reith lives behind a keyboard in the far south west of England. On the very rare occasions she is not writing, Anna enjoys taking long, muddy walks with her dogs, dabbling in her herb garden, and falling off horses. Not all at the same time, obviously.

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      Black Ice - Anna Reith

      Black Ice by Anna Reith

      © 2016 by Anna Reith. All rights reserved. www.annareith.co.uk

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      ISBN: 978-1-907623-20-2

      Cover design by Anna Reith © Frith Books 2016

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      I’ll kill you, Lenny warned, and Jack knew he meant it.

      Lenny always meant it, whatever he said, which was why he didn’t say much a lot of the time. He was just that kind of guy… though, in all probability, it wouldn’t be so much ‘kill’ as ‘kick really hard in the balls’. After all, Lenny had promised Jack’s mom he’d look after him, or at least make sure he didn’t die stupidly before his first trip.

      After that, Lenny said, he was on his own.

      Jack stuck one arm out of the truck’s window and waved dismissively at the man who’d just become his supervisor as well as his friend.

      Aw, you won’t do that, he teased, as he began to coax the rig into gear and nose it towards the edge of the yard. You love me, Sugarcake!

      Lenny, bundled up in so much weatherproof gear all Jack could see of him was his dark moustache, mirrored snow glasses and a little bit of weathered red nose, snorted.

      I’m not kidding! He raised his voice over the noise of the truck’s engine and the sound of its massive wheels creaking on the snow. "You screw this up, and if the ice don’t get you, I will. I’ll send you back home in pieces, kid. Mess up, you

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