![]() ![]() He leaves a few minutes later and catches a train. What reason was there for Intelligence to get involved? Vandam frowned and thought again. ![]() ![]() The Egyptian police force and the British Military Police would be investigating already in Assyut, and their collekgues in Cairo would, like Vandam, be learning the details this morning. A man answering the hitchhiker’s description had bought a ticket to Cairo at the railway station, but by the time the body was found the train had arrived in Cairo and the killer had melted into the city. The body had been discovered last night, almost as soon as the corporal’ti absence was noted, but several hours after the death. A patrol had picked up a hitchhiking European who had subsequently murdered a corporal with a knife. The report came from Assyut, three hundred miles south, and at first Vandam could not see why it had been marked for Intelligence. He sat down, lit a cigarette and began to read. There was an incident report on his desk when he arrived. ![]() Major Vandam’s office was at Gray Pillars, one of a group of buildings surrounded by barbed-wire fencing which made up GHQ Middle East. Encyclopedia of World Writers, Beginnings To 20th Century.Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes. ![]()
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In this edition, readers really can have it both ways. ![]() One can read it viewing the world as it was in the time the book was written, or one can assume today’s societal values and political correctness. ![]() ![]() “There are a couple of ways to read a book written three hundred years ago. Samuel Johnson, who rightly asks, ‘Was there ever anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers?’” This is a wonderfully published book, right down to the ‘blurbs,’ which come waltzing through history from Ms. ![]() Kincaid, at the start, writes that she herself is a ‘Friday in all but name,’ giving the main character, his creator, and the empire that birthed them what-for the Mexican artist Eko contributes gorgeous and striking illustrations throughout the text. ![]() ![]() ![]() Courage and StrengthĪs Travis' father is leaving, after handing him his greatest challenge yet, Travis is in great fear as uncertainty grows in him. 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