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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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Less than five minutes after she leaves, she hears them: sirens. They sound almost the same as back home, but not quite. A universal noise signalling danger, for bad people and bad things, accidents, fires and criminals.

She’s by the side of the road, in plain sight, bag hoisted unnaturally over her shoulders. It’s too large, a man’s sports bag really, and she is conspicuous, a woman alone on a day trip to nowhere.

Sweat begins to gather on her lower back, underneath the bag containing a million dollars’ worth of Colombian cocaine.

The heat fires up panic; she’d get life in prison.