Case Histories

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Genres: Fiction
He was waiting in the terminal for Nicola and the rest of her flight crew to disembark from their aircraft. It was seven in the morning, which seemed a particularly hellish time to be in an airport. If an unknown assassin didn’t kill him he supposed his tooth would.
The plane had already emptied its bedraggled, disoriented passengers. Jackson had never been to Málaga. When they were married Josie had insisted that they take an expensive holiday every year, villa holidays, “villas with private p
...ools” in “lovely” places, Corsica, Sardinia, Crete, Tuscany. All he could do now was conjure up a kind of generic Mediterranean memory—Marlee slippery with suntan cream and buoyant with armbands, splashing in the shallow end of the pool; Josie lying on a recliner, reading a novel, while Jackson himself lapped the pool, his body a dark shape under the blue water, like a restless, obsessive shark.
Watching Nicola was just displacement activity, trying to keep his mind off the fact that someone was trying to kill him (although, let’s face it, it was quite hard to forget something like that).
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