The Engine That Shouldn't Run

<p>When classic car restorers Billy and Ollie Ashcombe take on a vintage coupe with a mysterious past they expect rust and loose bolts-not buried government secrets and experimental technology decades ahead of its time.</p><p>Hidden beneath the polished chrome and perfect lines is VerdEx R4: an adaptive engine system that doesn't just respond to its driver-it learns corrects and sometimes refuses. As the siblings delve into the coupe's origins they uncover a conspiracy of silence industrial espionage and a machine so advanced it scared its creators into erasing it.</p><p>Now powerful forces want to reclaim it. Others want it destroyed. But the Ashcombes are determined to let the car speak for itself-before it disappears again.</p><p>Smart sharp and driven by mystery and mechanics <em>The Engine That Shouldn't Run</em> is a high-octane cosy thriller for readers who believe the past never really stalls-it just waits to be restarted.</p>