Wrecker the Weasel and the Rotten Shed Gang

An old enemy returns to pursue a vicious vendetta against Wrecker the Weasel and the Rotten Shed Gang in 'Wrecker the Weasel and the Watermill Plot', the second adventure of the British countryside's most notorious egg thieves! Expect rollicking adventure, humour, and touching comradeship as the hapless smugglers do their best to outsmart the plans of the psychotic fox, Mandrake. Against the background of a summer heatwave, Mandrake and his foxes set out to ruin Wrecker's egg-smuggling operations, destroying birds' nests, stealing eggs, and holding water sources to ransom. Before long Mandrake allies with sinister underworld figures in London in a bid to crush Wrecker's supporters in the city. Facing the loss of his business, his gang, his friends, and ultimately his life, Wrecker must hope for a miracle of deliverance. Strangely, the ghost of an opportunity becomes apparent at the old watermill, and in the millpond which sits directly above Mandrake's countryside headquarters. A well-engineered flood couldn't possibly be the answer to Wrecker's problems... could it?

Disaster looms in the countryside. A dismally wet spring threatens to wipe out the summer harvests and ruin the eggs of nesting birds. Against this emerging backdrop is set an exciting, evocative and often very amusing story that takes the reader directly into the lives of the birds and animals for whom the weather can be both friend - and implacable foe. The wise old toad, Tarquin, warns the animal community that without a successful harvest, starvation will follow in the winter. Meanwhile Wrecker the Weasel, leader of a group of professional egg thieves, is struggling to find - and steal - enough eggs to meet the demands of dangerous and powerful figures in the ferret underworld. Salvation for all could lie in the grain stores and hen house of nearby Half Mile Farm, but with the farm in the brutal grip of rodent gangster 'Monsta' the Rat, what steps can the beleaguered creatures take to secure their livelihoods - and their very survival?