There are stories featuring Lenny Samuel at the other four levels of Macmillan Guided Readers: L. A. Detective, L. A. Raid, L. A. Winners and The Woman Who Disappeared.

Peter, a long-distance lorry driver, gives a lift to a 16-year-old hitch-hiker. As the boy confides in him, Peter discovers that his name is John and that he has run away from home after a violent row with his uncle. But John's uncle has been found dead and the police are making a nationwide search for John.