Relentless - Simon Kernick

3 o’clock. It’s a normal Saturday afternoon. You’re with the kids in the garden when the phone rings.

It’s your best friend from school. Someone you haven’t seen for a few years. It should be a friendly call making arrangements to see each other again, catching up on old times.

But it’s not.

This call is different. Your friend is speaking quickly, panting with fear, his breaths coming in tortured, ragged gasps. It is clear that someone is inflicting terrible pain on him.

He cries out and then utters six words that will change your life forever . .. the first two lines of your address.