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completed a deal for
thirty A380s and Alba International had purchased one for Donald
which Tom had already christened ‘Alba One’.
    “Go on then, get flying!” said Donald pointing Tom in the
direction of the staircase.
    Tom didn’t need to be asked twice.
    “Come on Lela, come with me!” he shouted as he sprinted up the
stairs. As she followed apprehensively, Tom was already bursting into the
cockpit where he found the final part of his birthday present. The Captain’s
seat was occupied. The test pilot from the A380’s inaugural test flight was
waiting to give him his first lesson. Captain Jacques Rosay would be spending the next few weeks teaching Tom everything he knew.

 
 
    Chapter
10

 
 
 
 
 
    Conor Murphy surveyed the
plans and scratched his head. He just couldn’t see how they would do it. He had
accepted what he had thought was a simple job. $1 million to
snatch a couple of kids. The client didn’t care what happened to them,
he just wanted them out of the way on the 12 th August. What he did to them after that, was up to him. Ransom them and give them back, ransom
them and kill them, whatever Conor wanted was fine,
as long as, on the 11 th August they were in Conor’s custody. He couldn’t believe it. Somebody was
bankrolling him to kidnap the children of the third richest man in the world
and he could keep whatever ransom payment he could get.
    Conor checked his watch. He had less
than 36 hours to go. Two weeks earlier, he thought he’d have plenty of time.
However, he had since seen the security system which protected the Kennedy Estate. It was unbelievable. They had every conceivable
device and many he was not aware even existed. Donald Kennedy was obviously a
very paranoid man.
    Conor and his eight
man crew had committed just about every crime imaginable. They had been
the IRA’s top team before the peace agreement. They were extremely violent and
highly respected terrorists. But all that had now passed and they were
struggling to adapt to peace time . When Conor had called them to gauge their interest in the job,
they had jumped at the chance. The prospect of getting rich beyond their
wildest dreams certainly didn’t hinder their decision.
    The previous two weeks had been spent planning how to snatch the
kids and this had not gone well. Their preferred option of sneaking in and
stealing the children during the night was quickly ruled out. On seeing the
estate for the first time, they knew they had a problem. Eight
foot walls were topped with razor wire and sensors were everywhere. The
surveillance cameras which covered every inch of wall were not like any they had seen before. They had the usual infrared bulbs
either side but a strange spherical device hung underneath. Ryan was their
technical whiz and after a few days of searching had finally discovered that
this device was a scanner which detected body heat,
movement and smell. Ryan had managed to get a copy of the system’s specifications which detailed its capabilities. It was
designed to detect any foreign object in the vicinity, scan its body mass and
dimensions, including facial structure and body odour. Anything outwith its
programmed parameters would trigger an alarm. Ryan explained in plain English
that unless their physical details were programmed into the system, they would
trip the alarm as the scanners were everywhere. Only
wildlife and specific individuals would be accepted into the grounds. The
system could even differentiate between the male and female of a species. He
also explained that the system had not gone beyond the experimental phase
because the project had been scrapped. Conor perked
up at the thought of some design fault but was disappointed to learn that the
system had only been scrapped because it was not economically viable. It was so
perfect, nobody could have   afforded it. They realised that
‘sneak and grab’ was definitely not an option.
    Another possibility was to ram the front gate and