ONE Since becoming Auckland District Commander and developing an appreciation for wine — the two were related — Finbar McGrail hadn’t been sleeping as well as he used to. His... Read More
1 Hitler was right. Elias White scrawled the three words across a pad of paper, waiting for the students to arrive and for his 9:30 class to start. No, too... Read More
What happenedNovember 24, 1971As the 727 taxied down the rain-damp runway of PortlandInternational, the man in 18C stubbed out his third unfilteredRaleigh and passed a note to the stewardess, a... Read More
1People thought it was an accident. Scholten didn’t.It wasn’t suicide either. Scholten would have swornto that. Naturally such a strange death was bound toput ideas into certain heads. And very... Read More
Chapter 1: Infatuation The moment Brian saw a magazine advertisement for the sale of Biddulph Old Hall, he was gripped by foreboding. He felt sure that if I were ever... Read More
Chapter One: Man and Animal We know much less about the nature and the origin of consciousness than we think we do. Consider, for example, our ability to see. Seeing... Read More
1 My brother Borja’s name isn’t Borja. It’s Pep (or Josep). And his surname isn’t Masdéu-Canals Sáez de Astorga. We’re both Martínez on our father’s side and Estivill on our... Read More
MONDAY, 1 AUGUST 9.14 p.m. It wasn’t the first time. But it always felt like the first time as he stood in front of the mirror, uncertain, undecided, on the... Read More
