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Captain Gianni smiled as the motor-yacht ‘St. Tropez’ cleaved its way through the calm Indian Ocean waters. The weather forecast for the next three days was perfect. That was the amount of time needed to make the nine hundred and seventy-four nautical mile journey from Mombassa, Kenya to Victoria, Seychelles.
The one hundred and sixty foot long yacht would be able to cruise at a steady fifteen knots, while his five passengers were catered to, relaxing in the lap of luxury.
Shane Cooper was a self-confessed computer geek, one of the many dot-com millionaires spawned during the nineties. He’d had the good fortune to sell his start-up before the collapse, and he and his family lived comfortably on the proceeds that he’d invested. Along with his beautiful wife Amy and their three childre
