Five-Ring Circus (2013)
“This eight o’clock meeting had some very sullen people sitting in the Premier’s office. Sports Minister Agaroff and Police Commissioner Zanuch were the two unhappiest-looking. Lord Mayor Amberton’s smile might have been forced, but it was second nature to him.
“Give ‘em the score, Roger,” said the Premier, hunched in his chair, enjoying his malevolence as if it were a second breakfast. Summer and winter, Gert, his wife, fed him the same breakfast: porridge with milk and sugar, two sausages and an egg, two slices of toast with her home-made strawberry jam. This second meal, of his visitors’ discomfiture, tasted just as good.
Ladbroke would have been wide awake for a 6 a.m. meeting; he was long experienced in The Dutchman’s ploys. “You all read the papers this morning or listened to the radio. That guy who was shot at Kirribilli night before last worked on the Olympic Tower site. John Laws called it the Jinx Site—he gave all his listeners a reminder of what happened there in the previou...s abortive development.MoreLess
“Give ‘em the score, Roger,” said the Premier, hunched in his chair, enjoying his malevolence as if it were a second breakfast. Summer and winter, Gert, his wife, fed him the same breakfast: porridge with milk and sugar, two sausages and an egg, two slices of toast with her home-made strawberry jam. This second meal, of his visitors’ discomfiture, tasted just as good.
Ladbroke would have been wide awake for a 6 a.m. meeting; he was long experienced in The Dutchman’s ploys. “You all read the papers this morning or listened to the radio. That guy who was shot at Kirribilli night before last worked on the Olympic Tower site. John Laws called it the Jinx Site—he gave all his listeners a reminder of what happened there in the previou...s abortive development.MoreLess
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