Caller Unknown

Caller Unknown

Author: Gillian McAllister Listening Length: 11h 8m

A road trip across America with her teenage daughter was meant to be much-needed bonding time for Simone before Lucy leaves home for university. But on the first night of their stay, in a cabin deep in the Texan desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings and the voice on ...

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CHAPTER 10

What three words location: Mechanism. Ill. Familial.

Simone stares at this jumbled sentence, hoping that they are evidence she is dreaming. She pinches her arm and feels it. She blinks down at the phone, thinking, and it’s exactly then that she realizes the meaning of the message.

What Three Words is an app. She knows this because Dishes uses it to show its location on their website. Every three-metre square of the world has been logged using three-word combinations, giving much more accurate whereabouts than maps.

The kidnappers want her to go to a precise location. Something begins to rumble in the distant depths of Simone’s mind.