Sunday, July 6, 2014

A HACKER’S REVENGE

 A HACKER’S REVENGE

 John Backhouse
Level: pre-intermediate
Genre: thriller
Length: short
At exactly 8.20 Mr Henry Williams walked through the doors of the bank. He was the manager and had worked there for twenty years. He wasn’t always calm and relaxed when he arrived at work but yesterday something had happened to make his life much easier. He looked around the bank. There were beautiful new computers on every desk. Now bank has the most up-to-date computer hardware and software are the most secure system money can buy. LAN is working perfectly. It is now connected to the bank’s WAN and the security access rights are known only by LAN administrator. It seems that better couldn’t be… but all of this will be runied after several minutes.
Total words: 6490
Unique words: 1083

PRIME SUSPECT

 PRIME SUSPECT

 Lynda La Plante
Level: pre-intermediate
Genre: crime, detective
Length: medium
When a young woman is found horribly murdered, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison at last gets the chance she needs to prove herself. She must work fast to catch the murderer and stop him killing again. But she must also fight to win the respect of the men she commands. And the men are hoping she’ll fail, every step of the way. She must make no mistakes. Then a second body is found…
Film version: Prime Suspect (1991)
Total words: 15157
Unique words: 1285

MEET ME IN ISTANBUL

 MEET ME IN ISTANBUL

 Richard Chisholm
Level: pre-intermediate
Genre: adventure, detective
Length: medium
Angela is Tom’s fiancee and must meet him at the airport in Istanbul. She had been worked in this old city for a several months. Her firm exports and imports different things: lamps, brass ornaments, trays etc. Her duty is arranging of that business. When Tom arrived to Turkey, she didn’t meet him, it wasn’t alike for her. He tried to find Angela but he couldn’t. Tom became more anxious when strange man in the raincoat started to follow him everywhere. What happened? Where is Angela? Answers for all of this and other questions Tom’s and his new Turkish friend Kamal would find in their fascinating adventure over Istanbul.
Total words: 10690
Unique words: 1182