Dangerous Trade-In: Racing Against Time, Fighting for His Life

Acomputer technician updates a computer for a client, then trades in the replaced computer to a computer shop for cash. The shop-owner passes it on to an employee, Donald Taylor, for his personal use. But when Taylor later connects it up, he discovers it contains data relating to a proposed terrorist bomb attack in Melbourne.

The terrorist group realise their data is compromised and enter the shop to retrieve their old computer. They establish where it is, then murder the shop-owner. Police arrest Taylor for the murder, but not before he informs ASIO in Canberra of his discovery.

To identify the computer's previous owners, police and ASIO must find the computer technician, who's vanished without trace. They have two weeks to find and thwart the terrorists.

Ray Scott was born in Kent in England and lived and worked for over 30 years in the Midlands near Birmingham. After National service in the Royal Navy he joined the insurance industry and was employed for many years in Birmingham and Wolverhampton. He and his wife Mary and their two boys immigrated to Australia in 1970 and have lived since then near Melbourne where he again joined the insurance industry, while Mary rejoined the nursing profession. Ray has been writing for many years. This is his sixth venture into publishing, the others being The Fifth Identity, Cut to the Chase (also a paperback) The Wimmera Shoot, Double Dutch, Line of Dissent and Doubt of the Benefit, all thrillers.