MY BOOK

Michael  Pakula likes to kill people. The British Army taught him well. After being encouraged to leave the Parachute Regiment, and having seen action in the Falklands, he takes employment as the security manager at a Surrey based night club.

He is put to the test when the club has a visit from a gang involved in the protection racket. What follows demonstrates the violence of men in the name of 'protection' and one man's conversion into crime.

It's a Saturday night and you are at home watching the Lottery show. It is time for the draw, and you sit waiting impatienty for the draw to take place. You have always dreamt of winning, even though the odds against you having the winning ticket are millions to one. You check the numbers off one by one, your excitement mounting as the balls drop into the chute. Then finally the all important number comes up and you scream in disbelief. You have won the lottery. You phone the number on the reverse of the ticket. You have just arranged for your death.

This is a story that could have happened. If you buy a lottery ticket you should be afraid - very afraid.

DEATH IS A LOTTERY​

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