I'd been too intent on the room to hear her coming up the stairs. Leslie said that the capacity not to notice a traditional Dutch folk dancing band walk up behind you was not a survival characteristic...
I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances that were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs...
I showed her my warrant card, and she stared at it in confusion. You get that about half the time, mainly because most members of the public have never seen a warrant card close up and have no idea wh...
I ended up learning magic because you can’t trust the British to keep to an agreement over the long term.
I didn’t tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I’d have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he’d understood th...
Ghosts, I was thinking, memories - I wasn't sure there was a difference.
For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal.
Even at ten o’clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity...
Boss,’ I said into my Airwave. ‘It’s getting needlessly metaphysical out here.
Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the ‘London once-over’ – a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possi...
Because who is more oppressed, exclaimed Leslie. Those that seek nothing but entitlements for themselves or those that claim for everything, social security, housing benefit, disability and pay for no...
Back at the start of World War Two the authorities forbade the use of the Underground as an air raid shelter. Instead Londoners were supposed to rely on hastily built neighborhood shelters or on the f...
At the bottom of the box I found part of a map that had been ripped down its centrefold – a 1:40,000 scale depiction of a place called Ootacamund, which turned out on later research to be a British Hi...
Are there rules?’
Allison
Gave us the traditional look of weary outrage that you always get from someone who thinks they don’t have time for this shit—
From the individual infantryman’s point of view there really is no such thing as too much personal firepower.
Zap,’ I said. ‘That’s the technical term for it, is it? What do you call someone who’s been zapped?’‘Mr. Crispy,’ said Kumar.
When you arrive unexpectedly at someone’s house you go in through the front door, often after making sure you’ve got a couple of mates waiting round the back. For a business, especially the kind that...
When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.