The Bunker diary,

Autor: Kevin Brooks

winner of the 2014 Filip Carnegie medal.

Sunday Times: A compulsive, atmospheric mystery.

Mail on Sunday: A masterly writer

Independent on Sunday: Hugely readable … confoundedly gripping.

 Linus lives on the road, every Sunday morning he wants to find some dropped stuff. (cigarettes, fake Rolex, cash, cards, clothes,…) then he saw a blind man who needed some help ( raincoat, hat, dark glasses, white stick, broken arm). He was struggling to get the case in the back of a van. He offered help. He helped him à blind man clamped a damp cloth over his face.

2 days alone then Jenny Lane came (smart, 9 year old girl, they slept in the same room, became friends). They asked ‘him’ for food and he gave them some. Problem, everywhere where cameras, at the bathroom to. He finds a solution with a sheet. He took her with him after she came from school.

A few days later the lift came down, there were 2 persons in the lift: Anja and Fred. Anja came down in a wheelchair. She is a confident women who always gets what she wants. Late twenties, well-spoken, honey blond hair, fine nose sculpted mouth, perfect teeth silver necklace she was wearing a sheer white top, She wears a short black skirt, tights and high heels. She sells houses in London. He got her with the chloroform. She knew it because her husband works in chemicals.

 Fred is a very big man, tall and solid. Hard as nails, greasy hands, short dusty hair. He was wearing a work jeans, boots, a faded sweatshirt with the sleeves cut of. He is a panel-beater in Camden town. Someone stole his car, he was looking for a car to steal, someone hit him with an iron bar. He is heroin addicted. Has tattoos

They tell Linus that everyone is searching Jenny, it was on the news.

Linus Weems had to go to a boarding school his dad was very busy and rich. His mum died, he was pour.

A fat man in grey suit he was in his late thirties, curly black hair and dandruff of the collar of his suit his name is Willian Bird ha’s a commuter works in London in banking industry. He met a man in a bar in London (suit raincoat moustache glasses) they went together to Chelmsford in train.

They get organized, they are looking horrible, pale drained haunted. Skin feels dirty and clammy. Bird is in love  with Anja.

Rusell Lansing arrived, his book natural philosophy in the 21st century, he was in a wheelchair. He’s seventy black skin, dull and grey, hair are all brittle and white. He met a fellow at the bar, he  accompanied him to his home. He was befuddled.

Kidnapper was: charming, manipulative, persuasive, intelligent. A classic psychopath. Middle aged dark hair, strong hands 5 feet 10 inches tall, clean shaven, lightly tinted spectacles. Charcoal suit, burgundy tie and black slip-on shoes, burgundy socks.  Rusell is a physicist.  He is in room 6

Linus likes Rusell, he has a lot of conversations with him, he is a grandpa for Jenny.

Escaping: message in a bottle, in the lavatory.

The place: white walls, small generator 4-sylinder diesel engine. It was a filter for extracting radioactive material and chemical and biological agents. It’s to allow gasses to be pumped in the bunker. It costed a lot of time and money to build it. The walls are constructed with 0.75 metre with steel mesh. It’s a reconditioned bunker. Build in the early 50’s.

Father Linus, Charlie Weems. He wrote the gribbels, he sold it to a Japanese company, the father made a cartoon, the Japanese people made a Tv series of it, and they made a lot of gadgets. His dad took drugs and used too much alcohol he sold everything when his mum was dead. After that … and then his father brought him to school, (5 months ago) and he escaped and started living at school.

He gave some cleaning stuff, cigarettes and vodka. A bag full of brown powder. And magazines with porn and newspaper clippings about Anja; Jenny and Bird.

Rusell has a brain tumour and is going to die.

He is playing with time, sometimes he let it go fast or slowly.

Escaping plan, jenny and Fred in the kitchen there was fire, making bacon.

Linus emptied the rubbish out of a bin liner, teared 5 bags from the rolls start suffering one bag into another. He was catching in the black plastic bag, they put him in the lift. Everyone has been gassed. And he didn’t give them food for a weak, they said sorry and everything was ok, he made it freezing to. Then he gave them a lot of food they were like animals. The food was drugged. He was hallucinating, he was thinking about animals.

Escaping plan 2: he filled a pan to clean his room, stripped sheet of his bed and took it into a bad. Than he smashed the clock with a chair. Everyone was drugged with chemicals. He went to bed and putted the sheet/bag around his head. He tried to escape from the chemicals. The man didn’t come, mission failed. Everyone hates Linus right now. The lift came back with a  wild dog in it. The dog had bitten Bird, Fred saved birds life. He killed the dog.

The man sends another letter to the people. Listen my word he who kills another shall be free. Rusell says to linus that he has to kill hum or bird because they are weak and very sick.

Anja was killed by Bird, but the man sand a message, he wrote that Linus was the killer. No one trusted the man upstairs. Than bird tried to kill Jenny, Fred killed bird in a fight. Russel died to. He was to sick they haven’t eaten since Linus’ last try to escape. They were all dying together? Jenny Fred and Linus. The man upstairs is gone, there is no electricity and the lift didn’t move for a long time. Fred drank the bleach in the bathroom. He’s dead. Jenny died in Linus’ arms. After all, Linus died to, he survived  a couple of days more.