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UPON the completion of the Lord of the Piston Rings tale the question is being asked from Kataia to Kingston ( yes , rumour has it they were reading it in Jamaica too )... what happened to all those at the heart of the strange saga ?
It seems like only yesterday ... but then again it seems like such a long , long time ago .
For Gandar McInnes , who led a small , loyal and brave band of misfits in a quest to quench the fires of motorcycling evil and at the same time restore the King of Rock `n Roll to his throne , it was an adventure that changed the course of what had otherwise been an unremarkable life .
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All his years he had worked as a mechanic , and at the time he became aware his old teenage biking acquaintance Sidney Sorceron had fallen into the clutches of the dark side , he had been working from his garage in uneventful semi-retirement .
“ I can ’ t say too much about the emergence of the rings and how it all came about ,” Mr McInnes said .
“ Not while the negotiations for the screen rights are going on ... I ’ ve signed a confidentiality agreement you understand .”
However , one thing Mr McInnes was prepared to say was that he was not surprised Mr Sorceron had steered a
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course away from the path of good .
” He had a shocking upbringing . When he was just a lad his father , who was a vicious old alky , would take him to town on a leash like a dog . The old man thought it was a great joke ... poor little Sid just took it .”
In time , as Sidney Sorceron grew into adolescence , he became saturated in bitterness and resentment .
RUMOURS & WHISPERS There had been rumours and whispers over how old man Sorceron came to be found face down in a neighbour ’ s water feature back in the winter of `59 .
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The only certainty about the death was that it produced no emotions from young Sid or his mother ... a woman so traumatised by years of physical and verbal abuse she was practically mute .
Indeed , on the day of Eric Leerworth Sorceron ’ s funeral both Mrs Sorceron and the teenage Sidney preferred to spend the day at the local greyhound track ... and won some 14 pounds !
Even the vicar failed to show , and the booze-ravaged body of Eric Sorceron was simply slid into a furnace and incinerated .
” Apparently the amount of overproof in his system caused
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