Damian Lanigan

Stretch, 29


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      STRETCH, 29

      Damian Lanigan

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Copyright © Damian Lanigan 2000

      Damian Lanigan asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780006514282

      Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2017 ISBN: 9780008245924

      Version: 2017-02-16

      For Matthew Batstone

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Loose change

       Hundreds of pounds

       Crisp notes

       Five quid

       £200,000 a year

       Thirty a bottle

       Sixer in coin

       The nine hundred mark

       Spending limit

       £15,525

       Forty-eight pounds sterling and nought new pence

       £45

       £875,000

       Over eighty pounds

       Nearly seventy

       Money

       Seven hundred left

       Four twenty-pound notes

       Forty-four pounds eighteen pence

       Forty p

       Zero

       0171 299 4563

       Levelling

       Averagely off

       About the Author

       Also By

       About the Publisher

      I was walking towards Knightsbridge with two grand in my pocket, wondering how far it would get me.

       Scenario 1: I get the tube to Heathrow, buy myself a one-way ticket to LAX, hole up in a motel on Sunset, spend three sleepless days and nights hunched over the complimentary stationery, chewing down triple espressos. I emerge blinking and amazed with a movie idea so high concept that Fox kidnap me, stick me in a suite at the Beverly and forbid me to speak to anyone while