No matter how soft the suspension of the bus and how comfortable the seat you still feel as though you’ve been sitting on a sack of rocks for a few hours, so I was tired and not very impressed by my first view of Fort Farrell—The Biggest Little City in the North-Eastern Interior—or so the sign sa...
Four weeks previously I had been a London accountant—one of the bowler hat brigade—and now I was in exotic Mexico and preparing to take a jump into even more exotic territory. From what I could gather from Fallon the mysteriously named Quintana Roo was something of a hell hole. And why was I goin...
Somewhere in the middle of it, while Kemp was supervising the recoupling of the tractors to the other end of the rig it was discovered that McGrath was missing. The air was lively with curses as both Kemp and Hammond sought their chief driver. At about the same time Sadiq’s sergeant came to tell ...
He was introduced to me just before the charge was laid and did not seem at all perturbed at the prospect of acting for a criminal. The law is a strange profession in which ordinary morality goes by the board; a well liked and generally respected barrister will fight like a tiger for his client, ...
Hartwell said, ‘Your man, Hendrykxx, died a little over four months ago. The body was cremated. I checked the newspapers and it went unreported except for the usual formal announcement.’ ‘What was the cause of death?’ ‘Heart attack. It was expected; he had a history of heart trouble. I discovered...
He moaned in protest and opened his eyes to see Diana bending over him. ‘Wake up—we’ve got a visitor.’ He sat up and rubbed bis eyes. ‘Who?’ ‘Come and see.’ McCready was at the window, binoculars to his eyes. As Denison joined him he said, ‘It’s one of the characters from Kevo—not the Yanks, the ...