“I was sitting on the sofa, getting stuck into a late breakfast when my phone rang. His voice was shaking. “Claude’s in hospital,” he told me. “Two broken legs.”I jumped to my feet. My cornflakes went everywhere. “What happened?”I remember praying he would say it was some kind of accident. Claude had fallen down some stairs. Been hit by a bus. Anything.His voice rose. “What do you think happened? It was after he left us last night. He’s on his way home and he gets jumped. They broke his legs. Tw...o broken legs, do you know what that is?” His voice was getting higher by the minute. “Classic gangster technique. The IRA did it, the gangsters do it.” I could picture him on the phone, breathing hard, bouncing about on the balls of his feet the way he always did when he was nervous.“Did Claude tell you that?”“I’ve not seen him. But what else could it be? Al Butler, Mickey’s dog, and now this. No way this is the Young Bow. They’re just boys as well, they wouldn’t do a thing like this.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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