Thank you. Underwood and Flinch, a novel written and performed for podcast by Mike Bennett.

Episode 43.

This novel is intended for an adult audience.

Welcome back listeners to Underwood and Flinch. Before we begin episode 43, cast your mind back a few installments to episode 41.

Remember the scenes with David, Demo and Miguel.

Miguel, as you know, is secretly working with Lydia as part of her plot to ensnare

Underwood. But of course David and Demo don't know that. They think they're going to Sergei's club, La Fantasia, to meet with Underwood and then go on to rescue Lydia and the Mullins women Michelle and her daughter Melanie.

The last time we saw David, Damo and Miguel, they were loading up with armaments. David was dishing out the firearms,

Daimo wanted a hand grenade, and Miguel wanted to bring Mathias Flinch's sword, Not because he plans on using it in fighting anyone, but simply because

he's effectively stealing it for when he gets back together with Lydia later.

Damo's desire to bring a hand grenade was, of course, doused by David's being practical and

realistic, but you may recall,

Damo sneaked back into the armory while David's back was turned and slipped a mysterious little something

into his amo satchel. They then set off for the rendezvous with Underwood, but little

do they know that Underwood, having stolen the clothes of an England supporting youth on the street,

went straight into La Fantasia for a head-on meeting with Sergei,

where he hoped he might rescue the ladies without a shot being fired.

He failed, of course. Shots were fired at him, lots of them.

He was also burned with UV lights and thrown into a cell of sorts with Lydia who

bravely volunteered herself as a blood sacrifice in order to revive Underwood so he might save her from a life of sexual

slavery at the hands of Sergei's Serbian chums.

But then, just as Underwood had got his teeth into her, Sergei rudely interrupted, taking

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