The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Then he burrowed his head into his shirt and walked briskly down to the Brooklyn Bridge and across the East River into Manhattan. But he returned to his native borough as a homing pigeon might, utterly unequipped with further plans for survival. To make matters worse, a profound and acute loneliness overtook him. He hadn’t realized how good he’d had it in Cassandra’s company, but now that his social circle had contracted from one to zero, he longed for human companionship. Alas, there were only two people in the entire world he could trust—and one was holed up behind a police cordon, surrounded by Spitford’s minions, while the other was probably being skinned alive by the Peruvian version of the Stasi. Arnold couldn’t even befriend his fellow homeless. Even if he might surmount the class and education barriers, not to mention the initial distrust that kept apart strangers in the city, their bonds would melt quickly at the prospect of reward money. No, he was on his own. And so began the two long weeks of social isolation during which Arnold eked out his sustenance in Central Park.
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