“Jobs where people did what you told them to instead of giving you backchat and filthy looks. Jobs where the government wasn’t constantly on your back telling you how useless your profession was. Jobs where the coffee machine worked.” — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“With strong enough roots a tree could stand any gale, she had once said.” — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“European Union and politicians and how they knew bugger all about anything apart from lining their own pockets.” — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“Like something out of one of those special forces books, only the one he’s in is called Bravo Too Stupid.” — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“Wondered what story they might be able to tell, the secrets they might give up, the secrets they would hold on to forever.” — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“The sort of pain that is nothing? Empty pain, agony at night when you put out the light and then worse when the sun… — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“The Chief was Simon Fox, known as Foxy to the rank and file. Like all leaders, he had a tendency to push down directives… — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“I blame it on portion sizes, Charlotte. Go large. Fifty per cent extra. Buy one get one free. That and Nintendos, cinema-sized TV screens… — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“Jobs where people did what you told them to instead of giving you backchat and filthy looks. Jobs where the government wasn’t constantly on… — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“She got out of the car, grabbed the carriers of shopping and strolled down the pavement to her gate. Up the path and the… — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“History was composed of events like this and you revealed your age by how far back you could remember. Was it the searches on… — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“What had this woman and the other victims done which could merit such violence being done to them?” — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
“He’ll have a big house in a posh village. You see, Charlotte, how from up here, given the right clues, we can determine everything.… — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
