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Kipper was struck by the thought of adventure, scented fun in the air, and all on the side of the law; novel. He had helped Jack several times in the past and always thoroughly enjoyed himself, if not always emerging unscathed or uninjured. He didn’t care about the reasons, and politics never bothered him, he would help Jack for the sheer hell of it. ‘Let’s go see Boz and see what he knows,’ he said, rubbing his hands together.
Nobby looked to Alice for clarification, ‘Boz, my cousin, runs the tourist boats,’ and asked her uncle, ‘where will he be, not sure Nobby is ready for the Mother Ship yet?’ The Mother Ship being a notorious criminal pub, and coppers, except Alice of course, were definitely not welcome as Jack and Martin could testify1.
‘He’ll be down the ‘Ard. He runs ni
