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A Perfect Storm

St Mary’s · Short story · 2019

A Perfect Storm keeps the source of disaster close to home.

Short story, between books 8 and 9

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A Perfect Storm keeps the source of disaster close to home. Max's ordinary week becomes tangled in a film producer's demands, contracts still waiting for signatures and a formidable pub crawl.

Professor Rapson and his megaphone, exploding rocks and an enormous bacon sandwich all belong to the publisher's advertised mixture. The setup shifts attention from visiting a historical crisis to coping with a crisis around the historians themselves.

Our view: this is an appealing option when you want the institute's personalities and everyday disorder to take centre stage. The promise is workplace mayhem, with outside ambitions meeting a team already capable of generating trouble.

The story is published as an individual ebook and is the final piece in The Long and the Short of It. This site's sequence puts it after And the Rest Is History.

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UK Ebook · Headline Publishing Group

ISBN 9781472264510 · released 1 January 2019

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