Italian Caprice

This Thunderbirds story first saw the light of day when it was serialised in two parts in 1995/96 in the Fanderson fan magazine 'Collision Course'. Since then I've revised it to fix typos, improve the dialog and make the text flow a little bit better. The serialisations were illustrated, but sadly I've not been able to trace the artist to ask his permission to include them.

The story is based on the characters in the original Gerry Anderson Thunderbirds TV shows. It's a mix of adventure, mystery and humour and is a little bit off-piste compared to the original episodes, but then most fan fiction is these days. To enjoy it, forget about the puppets and think real people dropped into an unexpected adventure and into peril - that's the way it's written.
It starts with an earthquake and an item of jewellery, and ends with some of the IR members fighting for their lives, and inadvertently rescuing a whole community.

The main characters in the action are Alan Tracy, Virgil Tracy and Tin-Tin Kyrano, but all of the IR team appear here and there. There are a number of introduced characters, but all of these are simply there to provide liveliness for the story, and they're not characterised as fixtures.

The story is my original story, but of course the IR characters and the Thunderbirds concept were created by Gerry Anderson and are the properties of the current holders of that copyright, which is why the story copyright has to be 'All Rights Reserved'.