A CLOAK and dagger game has been opened by the theft of self-confessed computer game addict Keith Williams' favourite 'fix'.
For after hunting high and low in his Cinderford home for the CD Rom copy of "Commando" Keith, 35, got a letter with a Portsmouth postmark containing a sheet of paper with a message made from cut-out newspaper headlines.
"I know your game," it stated, adding, "Are you in command?"
"It's a huge conspiracy, I know it," said Keith. "It's got all my friends behind it and probably my wife too – I just want to let them all know that I'm on to them, as a sort of surprise ... I haven't let on that I'm playing their game.
"Knowing them as I do this hasn't ended here – there will be a lot more to come. But the battle lines are drawn – I'm determined to get my game back."
Keith, who works at the Co-op's County Store in Longlevens, Gloucester, said his friends and his wife, Tracy, were always on at him about the amount of time he spends on the game.
But he really enjoys the 'action man' thrills of being parachuted behind enemy lines and having to achieve secret missions and escape with his life – albeit only through a computer screen and joystick.
"I suppose I do spend rather a lot of time playing the commando but it is very exciting and you get engrossed.
"It's like a kidnap to me. I don't yet know what I'll have to go through or pay in the way of ransom, but it will be revealed.
"There has to be a payback. I can feel it."