The Ransom - Joanna Thomas - Bog

Trisha and David Holloway have two very successful businesses a Fashion House and a Fine Furniture factory and showrooms respectively, they are both millionaires very largely because of David's win on the lottery of a hundred and seventy million pounds.Trisha and her partner in the fashion house (who is also her mother) receive an invitation to attend a fashion show and conference in Banbury and set off by road early on Saturday morning. It is a trap, the are stopped by what appears to be a nasty accident involving a van, there is a body lying in the road and an Asian woman leaning over it. Trisha and Maureen run over to help and are immediately attacked by the two people and two more men who jump from the van. After a brief scuffle they are subdued and bundled into the back of the van and whisked off to a farmhouse which has been prepared for them.The intention of the gang is to torture and exploit them sexually in fron of video cameras and extort money from their husbands by threatening to publish the videos on the internet. In some of the footage they are bound to a mattress using largely invisible bonds to give the appearance of enjoying sex with one of the gang. The videos are sent to David and Maureen's husband in the form of emails with attachments. The demand is for one millione pounds for each woman.