This is a Maisie Kaywood story.

Check at www.thebuzzinbee.co.uk for others, particularly ‘Fidelity’ and ‘Out of the Blues’ two shorter stories which feature some of the other main characters in XCD (X-Carpe Diem), the name assigned to Maisie’s hit squad as she seeks to deliver her personal version of private justice against the baddies.

In Spanish Sparrows the action takes place in early 2008 when George W Bush was in his second year of his second term as US President.

The story starts in Tenerife then moves to Frankfurt then on to West Africa, focused on on a visit made to Benin by GWB in his valedictory year.

Yes, this visit did in fact take place.

So, dive in, why don’t you?