Join retired Sergeant Major John Benton as he recounts more tales of his exploits from yesteryear.
In Rotten to the Core by Hayden Gribble, young Corporal Benton is driving back from manoeuvres in Norfolk when he finds a patch of burnt countryside. But is it really burnt? And what secrets are concealed within the strange alien pod in the wood?
In Ian Ball’s Scrapped Plans, Benton has been promised some classic cars for JB Motors. But when he arrives at the scrapyard, he finds it’s been damaged by fire. Or so it seems. And the effect of the fire appears startlingly familiar. But who can he trust? And how did his favourite customer, Ted, get stuck in the mud?
Read these hair-raising adventures to find out…
UNIT: The Benton Files 4 features characters created for Doctor Who by Derrick Sherwin.
Hayden Gribble was born in the summer of 1989. He spent his formative years absorbing the television of yesteryear through repeats of the Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Red Dwarf and Dad’s Army. He was also mesmerised by the James Bond film series and the action cartoons of the late 1980s and early 1990s. As adulthood dawned he had tried to pass himself off as an adult by writing for a number of publications such as the Doctor Who Appreciation Society newszine, Celestial Toyroom, music writer for B-Side Magazine, Features and Vortextra contributor to Doctor Who Online and working as a football writer for goal.com and Eurosport. In 2014, he wrote and self-published his first novel, The Man in the Corner. He followed this up with a collection of poems and lyrics from his teenage years called Tales From Another Me, released as a kindle book in 2015. He appears regularly on the Diddly Dum Podcast and since 2016 has hosted his own show, Podcasters Royale: The James Bond 007 Show. Find Hayden on Twitter @gribbla12 and at his website www.haydengribble.net and Facebook www.facebook.com/haydengribbleauthor