“The BBC had made a television series a few years later but for her nothing could match the magic of the books, which had transported her into a world where solving puzzles was not simply an intellectual pursuit but a… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“Rachel was panicking. She'd actually lost sight of Gadlow. The cardinal bloody sin . Sandy was going to kill her, string her up outside… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“One evening after work, he had found himself walking in the diplomatic quarter of the city and passed the British embassy. He’d been oddly… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“Weale was in command of a detachment of forty-eight Selous Scouts, the most secretive and deadly of the Rhodesian special forces groups. The regiment… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“In the following months, he had supplemented these documents with other material, including a Zastava M57 pistol, the brutish-looking Yugoslavian copy of the Tokarev… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“The Scouts’ ‘pseudo’ teams had already captured dozens of rebels, and even when operations had failed had managed to sow confusion and paranoia among… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“He knew how it ended, because he had seen it before. It was always the same: the man with the gun didn’t even flinch… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“In the war against the Russians, a Finnish garrison had been stationed there to observe naval movements from the tower, until one night in… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“You know, this “Zimbabwe” you still believe in. It’s just a dream, my friend – or rather a nightmare. You think those fools can… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“But she’d been lucky to survive at all. The doomsday scenario Edmund Innes had outlined to her in 1969 hadn’t quite come to pass,… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“He remembered the morning of his birthday when she had given him the wallet, and Ben bounding onto the bed to give him his… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“She walked across the street and unlocked her car. As she squeezed in behind the wheel a picture emerged in her mind, as though… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“At the end of the avenue, a large villa was set back from the road with a surrounding fence covered in hessian. This was… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
