Coastline

Foreword

"The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't" - Christopher Paolini

Synopsis

After the telecoms-, energy- and food investment sectors, the rapidly consuming global security world, is by far - for serious investors with a large risk appetite, coming in vogue. The anxious lapping up of plots of the globe that it aims to dominate, pages one back to the frantic gold rushes of yesteryear. Investor buzzwords such as "increasing demand for security", "upbeat growth prospects" and "resilient", are all often discovered, standing at attention and rising up from high-level investor prospectuses. Feeding off our addictive and paramount need for privacy and safety, this sector has taken on the characteristics of a growing-mutating-kicking and screaming octopus-like organism, with its tentacles strangling new players with impunity.

Prologue

Anne, again for a somewhat untimely change, found herself many time zones away from the peaceful tranquillity that had become home in recent years. She craved her desolate all-year warm, water-walled personal and obscured sandcastle, with its elliptic five-hectare stretch, caressed by eternal shallow foamy turquoise waves.

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