This one did. It was a bloody big bang and it came from behind me. I turned. The trawler’s twin screws were churning the water into foam. The anchor chain from the gunboat was falling away towards the ocean floor. Someone had smashed a quick-release shackle. Tri was on the move in a big hurry, it...
It was at our training barracks. We had to move out for two weeks while they repaired the place. The nearest available alternative was a university residence hall. It was in the middle of the holidays, so most of the campus was deserted. There was just us, plus the last dregs of students on the f...
She’d come to the Business Center to attend to some practical matters, but before she got around to them she allowed herself the luxury of an extra few minutes with her webcams. The little girl was being home-schooled, just as the woman had been herself for a time. She didn’t know why. And she di...
We live till ripe old ages, and hardly spend any time in bed, sick. In fact, during my whole childhood, I can only remember my mother taking to her bed on one occasion. It was just after we’d moved into our new house in London, and I guess looking back the stress of relocating from Birmingh...
Late afternoon. PEEVER SENT THE OTHER AGENT OUT OF THE ROOM AND FOR THE next few minutes I stayed still, pinned to the ground as if the force of gravity had increased by a thousand percent. When Peever’s guy returned, he was carrying a black box, like an old-fashioned transistor radio. He set it...
I guess that’s so. All I know is that on the flight back from Bintan, I didn’t want my weekend to end. How many years had it been since I actually had a weekend that wasn’t dominated by pure lust but by something else? Whatever was happening between Simone and me was something that was new to me....