That’s a lot of Coke. Every second of every hour of every day, 8000 glasses of Coke gurgle down thirsty throats around the world. That’s also a lot of Coke. Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be drunk in space. Even the modern image of Santa Claus was actually invented by The Coca-Cola Company as part of its advertising campaigns in the first half of the twentieth century. Tupai and Fizzer had learned all these very interesting facts, and many more, during their guided tour of Coca-Cola World with the acting CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, Reginald Fairweather. And all of them, Tupai thought, he would trade in a second for a book on how to pick handcuffs. ‘There are two things that worry me,’ Fizzer said slowly, twisting his hands around inside the cuffs to see if there was any way to slide them off. (There wasn’t.) ‘Only two things?’ said Tupai a little grimly. ‘The first thing is: what are they going to do with us? And the second thing is, how did they know?’ ‘How did they know what?’ ‘That we were on the right track.’ Tupai thought about that for a moment, but it was all a little confusing, so he waited for Fizzer to explain.
