The Coat is a thriller by Alan Reynolds

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The worst decisions are sometimes made with the best of intentions, a simple error of judgement which unleashes a catalogue of life-changing events.

Keith Woodley, owner of a struggling coach business decides to treat his wife to a new coat and a night out for her special birthday. When she returns home with the wrong coat Keith finds a key to a left-luggage locker in the pocket and decides to track down the locker, thinking it might contain the money he needs to save his business. He was not prepared for the consequences.

He suddenly finds himself embroiled in a world of people trafficking and gang warfare. How can Keith extricate himself from this living nightmare?

A novel that will have readers urgently turning pages as the story of this fast moving thriller evolves.

Review

The Coat is an awesome thriller/crime fiction novel by Alan Raynolds. It is centered around the underground world of human trafficking. These people need new girls all the time for their unsavory schemes, and to get them they use old methods like kidnapping but also newer ones(The Internet) to trick the girls into going with them to the UK with the promise of better lives. Keith Woodley an unsuspecting Englishman with financial problems gets caught in the nets of that trafficking gang… To get out of it will be a nightmare – if he ever does that is. The story revolves around the human trafficking but also around Keith’s business and family life. If you like a good thriller get this one, you won’t be disappointed.

(Sandro of Circleofbooks.com)

A Word from the Author

The thriller is my sixth book and there is an interesting story on how it was inspired. I was having coffee with a friend of mine who explained she had had that embarrassing experience of taking home someone else’s coat from a dinner-dance she had attended. She didn’t notice it for a few days but eventually the coats were exchanged. This got me thinking and I started to put together a scenario involving the owner, Keith Woodley, of a struggling coach business. I asked myself the question what would I do if I found a key to a left-luggage locker in the pocket. It may contain money which could save the business. The beauty is no-one would know. Of course the events didn’t go to plan and Keith finds himself in a life-threatening situation.

I did a great deal of research on people trafficking and the seedy world in which the girls are forced to work.

(Alan Reynolds, 3rd May 2016)

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