““No, after all this effort, all this trouble, jumping the man in a dark alley and strangling him to death would be vulgar. When he went home to write the story in his dead-book, it wouldn’t be a chapter to be proud of. Honestly, after all they’d been through together, he owed Felix a more dramatic death. It was the professional thing to do. As the miles limped by and the powerless sun crested in a cloudless sky, Simon wove together the threads of a plan.””
