‘Somehow I think not. I know you better than that.’
Pagan smiled. It was strange how exuberance could come out of nowhere, how quickly your blood could be made to surge. It only took a disembodied voice at the end of a telephone.
‘Have you been listening to the news?’ Foxie asked.
‘I’ve made a point of avoiding it.’
‘I’ll bring you up to date when I see you. But you’ll read about it in the papers before then. It’s a biggie, Frank.’
‘How big?’
‘Disastrously so.’
‘I’ll be in touch.’ Pagan put the phone down.
They want me back, he thought. They find my presence necessary. Well well. Hearts had indeed been changed. He was going home after all.
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About the Author
Campbell Armstrong (1944–2013) was an international bestselling author best known for his thriller series featuring British counterterrorism agent Frank Pagan, and his quartet of Glasgow Novels, featuring detective Lou Perlman. Two of these, White Rage and Butcher, were nominated for France’s Prix du Polar. Armstrong’s novels Assassins & Victims and The Punctual Rape won Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Awards.
Born in Glasgow and educated at the University of Sussex, Armstrong worked as a book editor in London and taught creative writing at universities in the United States.
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