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The civil rights lawyer Diego Martino is often thought of as a dynamic and charismatic figure. He is always busy and pressed for time. “Time waits for no one,” he says. “One must not waste a moment of the day.” And yet Diego has a secret that perhaps only a handful of his closest friends …
Jamie Overstall grew up in Cambridgeshire in the Sixties. His parents were both Dons. Jamie was a precocious child who never quite lived up to his parents’ expectations. When he announced he was training to be a museum curator, they remained slightly disappointed. The truth was Jamie was not interested in bookish debates, though he …
“No, sir, I wasn’t.” “Not Malaysia.” “No, sir. Aden.” “Aden… Lucky man.” “I would say so, sir.” The colonel stood with his hands behind his back as the old soldier went onto explain how he had spent the best part of the conflict holed up in a Bedouin tent. “They gave us ice tea, and …
It was a cold day, as he remembered it, sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. He had the chains on the wheels because where he was going to a friend’s log cabin for the weekend, there was a risk of ice on the road. When he saw the hitcher up ahead of him, he did not …
The idea, of course, has been done to death by my good friends here in the sanatorium. Although I do not feel remotely privileged, I even have precedents for what I am about to relate in Maupassant, and further back in Hoffman. But allow me to give you something of my background. My father met …
October 3 I start my new job with Mr Jaggers. I will describe his office where I spent most of the day copying his notes of one of the cases into a ledger book. In spite of the fact that we are in the heart of the City, there is nothing of the décor and …
Amy George was a bar girl from Norfolk County. She’d been working up and down the coast well on seven years when she met Ben Summers one evening at the Crow Bar. Ben’d flown down from Florida because he’d heard they were looking for swordfishermen. Ben come in the Crow with his duffle bag over …