‘I don’t have a black dress.’ She was a wee bit anxious; the truth about where she was going and what we were about to do had been settling upon her since breakfast.‘They tend not to be fashion items for thirteen-year-olds, kid,’ I pointed out. ‘What did Grandpa like you to wear? It’s not about w...
'That's a side of the man that I never knew at all. Mind you, I have a natural antipathy towards politicians; maybe he read that and kept it from me.' 'That would have been just like him,' Dekker agreed. 'Other than in the courtroom, or in negotiation, he never forced his views in anyone's face. ...
'Sir' Stuart MacKinnon, for his. Scott Wilson and the Radio Forth team, for enabling it.President George Walker Bush. If I had invented Camp Delta or Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and then attempted to pass them off as fiction, I'd have been condemned for breaking the bounds of credibility, a...
Ten o'clock this morning, St Andrew's House.' He looked in the mirror, to straighten his tie, then picked up his jacket from the bedroom chair, over which he had draped it the night before. He was frowning as he fol owed Pam through to the kitchen. 'Wonder what the hell it could be about?' he ask...
I signed for it then took it upstairs to the safe in my room. To set the scene for what I’m about to tell you, I hope you’ll understand that, with all the day’s events, I was not in the best frame of mind to be appearing on a live television show. I thought about pulling out, using delayed jetlag...
‘He got off at Darlington,’ Jack McGurk told him from his chair in the corner of the office cubicle. ‘He strolled off the platform all nonchalant, with a rucksack over his shoulder, straight into a reception committee in the shape of two transport cops and an armed support team from the local for...