Barry had taken Brian to the King Edward Hotel to catch up. He was finding Brian more relaxed than he’d had seen him in a long time. He was placated. Whatever reservations he had about making pornography had been swept aside. “It’s amazing,” he said. “This is something really special.” Barry smil...
Nisha was discovered. The dead body of Joseph Frady was discovered. A net was tightening around him and it had come from nowhere. There were flashes of panic. Sudden physical jolts with a surge of adrenalin. Paul was back at the bedsit grabbing things, paperwork, stuffing ...
He’d been like that for five or six minutes when it suddenly dawned on him that he was alone. Ildico. Perhaps she was in the kitchen making coffee. What a treat that would be. Paul slipped out of the covers and pulled on some shorts. “Ildico,” he called moving out of the bedroom. “Ildico?” He loo...
The buildings were derelict, broken hovels of stonework with dilapidated rooftops. There were a few small apartment blocks of three and four stories, stripped of their window frames and doors to render them uninhabitable. Then the buildings became piles of rubble from professional demolition. Pil...