Public service

Not many jobs are for life. Jeff Parsons was angry, angry enough to kill. A reliable, dependable, and mostly honest public servant, Jeff expected to ride the government gravy train undisturbed until his retirement in 2025. On Friday March 2, 2012, Jeff's train derailed; a confidential email revealed that Jeff's boss, under the guise of government-wide cutbacks, planned to 'let Jeff go' and use the savings to reward and promote their sycophant lackeys and painted whore. Unemployment at fifty would destroy Jeff's life and threaten the security and health of his children. That was not acceptable. Desperate and determined, Jeff analysed the problem; six deaths in seven days ought to be enough. All he needed was a killer--Page 4 of cover.