Erk Defies Death

Ronald Cartwright, alias Donald Watmough, was banished by ASIO to the Queensland country city of Toowoomba, circa 1995. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation have another job for our hapless ex-RAF erk. Payback time! Watmough adamantly refused, but capitulated when ASIO threaten to gaol his mate, Sebastian Pearson, for his part in the great uranium highjacking affair in the Northern Territory.
Cartwright kept a daily diary, with almost religious fervour, soon after he was married, yet those of the decade 1995 to 2005 were missing. Quite by extraordinary coincidence, details of his last gripping escapade only surfaced in 2048. If the M2 Ipswich Motorway had not been upgraded to four lanes each way, the alleged ending of the Cartwright Saga would have remained a mystery for ever.
This, the sixth and penultimate novel in the series, starts at Menston near Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The main action is played out in Brisbane, Queensland and a desert location in Western Australia. Cartwright’s widowed wife, Daisy, died in modest financial circumstances in 2014 at Goodna, Brisbane. Where had all the fabulous wealth gone?
Once more, the secret code given to Ron by the late Mrs ‘X’, the one-time MI6 agent, hoodwinks ASIO and saves his life from a gruesome death. Without Sebastian’s knowledge of outback Australia, Cartwright would not have lived to record one of Australia’s greatest political cover-ups. A hapless erk helped to bring down the Australian Government. The gross deception by the Australian Labour Party had been buried for over half a century.
Ron’s grand-daughter, maiden name Fiona Simpson, chairman and owner of Qantas, received an urgent communication from Bradshaw & Bradshaw, solicitors, of Bradford. Why was she once again entangled with the Cartwright Saga? Would it never end?