Lesser Expectations

Within one week of entering his own name into the Google search engine on the Internet, and getting in touch with a website, Thomas Job Mitchell and Lauren Ross his partner, are experiencing odd and unsettling things happening around their family.Things come to a head when they receive a telephone call asking them to attend a meeting in Edinburgh. At the meeting Tom learns that his father, reported killed in action in WW2 was not killed and has just died. His father's dying wish is that Tom attends the funeral and the reading of the Will.At the reading of the will, Tom learns that 98% of his father's business, "Windmill Developments", a privately-owned company whose value would list in the top ten of "Fortune 500" if it were publicly-held, has been left to him.To add to Tom's bewilderment, he learns he has a half-brother, Junior, who is a psychopath and serial killer, who has fled to Brazil to escape several murder charges.When the details of his father's Will are revealed to Junior Mitchell, he learns of this half-brother and that he, Junior, is a bastard. To compound his shock at this revelation, he discovers his father has disowned him in favour of this newly-discovered son and has left everything to his half-brother in the Will.Junior's mentor in Brazil is a powerful man, Lord Bradscot, who is the owner of a snuff film studio and whose only interest in Junior Mitchell is relieving him of the expected fortune.Both men are outraged when they learn the fortune has gone to the newly revealed half-brother. However, because of a clause inserted in his father's will., the clause stating that should any of the beneficiaries of the Will die before a month has elapsed after his death. Then the heir will be deemed to have pre-deceased him, and the entire estate and fortune will revert to the surviving sibling, the serial killer Junior.Junior Mitchell and all the forces at his command have one month to kill Thomas Job Mitchell.Thomas Job Mitchell has to try and survive that month!

• | Author: Kenneth J. Matthews
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Feb 24, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 536 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 198034292X
• | ISBN-13: 9781980342922