, Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of
weeks and embrace the fantasy of olive trees, sandy beaches, and little
fishing boats bobbing on sparkling blue water under a warm sun.
But not McIntyre. McIntyre's a fixer, specialising in getting people out
of places they don't want to be with the minimum of fuss, publicity and
violence. The job in Corfu should be easy - spring, Lauren, a
15-year-old schoolgirl, from the luxury compound of the tech
billionaire, Julian Hepworth. Hepworth's young, handsome and
charismatic - he's also a suspected paedophile, who, under the guise of
training a girls' tennis team, has set up an abusive cult.
But as McIntyre sets up his operation in the exclusive north eastern
corner of the island, things quickly start to slip out of his control.
First, Lauren's father turns up, threatening to give the game away, and
soon, McIntyre's having to contend with Albanian gangsters, Greek drug
dealers, psychotic bodyguards, flat earthers and spoilt, wealthy
teenagers looking for dangerous kicks. To further complicate things,
Lauren's planning her own 'jailbreak'. It looks like things are going to
be a lot harder than McIntyre's used to. Luckily, he has his team around
him, a motley and colourful bunch, each with their own speciality.
The intertwined stories come together as the various characters all
converge on a glamorous summer party at Hepworth's spectacular villa.
Can McIntyre play the different factions off against each other and get
Lauren to safety without things going horribly wrong?
Whatever Gets You Through The Night is a crime novel with a
thrillingly dark heart about the truths that lurk beneath the picture
post card surface of a sunny Mediterranean idyll.,
