PROLOGUE
In such a short space of time and so soon after the dead and then resurrected dancing nun had brought forth and consolidated the velvet revolution in Britain. So soon after the resurrected nun had died and been resurrected for a second time and then died again and been finally laid to rest on an altar in Trafalgar Square, so The Rite of Spring was doomed.
It was then that the Establishment began their fight back and where better to target that revenge than in the heartland of the peaceful revolution itself, Portsmouth: the home of St Winifrede’s convent. The home of the cockney barrow boy, former Detective Chief Inspector, Jack (nicknamed Jane, aka d**k) Austin, ballet dancer extraordinaire and, his wife, the former Detective Superintendent, Amanda Austin (aka Duck). The home al
