Have you ever worked for a curmudgeonly, penny-pinching partner?

Do you sit at your desk worrying about being pursued relentlessly around the world by a psychotic killer?

Could you use your legal analytical skills to solve a series of cryptic clues and uncover one of the greatest political scandals of all time?

Have you answered yes to any of the above? If so, then you should download Inside the Rainbow Serpent, a new political thriller in which the central character, Corley James, is a solicitor who would have answered no to the second and third questions before his father's gruesome murder. However, this terrible event turns Corley's life upside down and propels him into a frantic and dangerous chase across Europe and Australia on a mission to discover who killed his father and why.

As Corley struggles to stay alive, his boss, Ralph Crippen-Smith, is incensed at Corley's absence from his old-fashioned, tiny law firm in Tenby. In Corley's absence, who will argue points of EU agricultural law before Tenby Magistrates in a forthcoming hearing? Not Ralph Crippen-Smith, that's for sure. He never voted to join the European Community in the early 70s and has denied the existence of European law ever since. He can't wait for Corley to return so that he can dispense his traditional lecture that his precious law firm "is not a bloody charity boy!". Furthermore, Ralph is beginning to regret employing Corley who, with his previous Australian law firm experience of litigating land disputes for Aborigines, should have been perfect for resolving conflicts between Pembrokeshire farmers.

The first few chapters of the ebook, which costs 99p, are available for free on the book's Amazon Kindle website (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Rainbow-Serpent-Dorian-Brunt-ebook/dp/B00OOTXH7G). I am donating the profits from the book to UCAN Productions, a not for profit organisation which provides arts and drama training to visually impaired young people (http://ucanproductions.org/).  

I have been a solicitor in private and public practice in the UK and Australia for almost twenty years. Many of the characters in the story are inspired by the colourful and fascinating people I have met over that time in the world of law.

So, as you set off on your summer holidays, why not take Corley James, Ralph-Crippen Smith and a gripping thriller with you and at the same time give some money to a good cause.

Dorian Brunt, author of Inside the Rainbow Serpent