Jake's Long Shadow (2012)
“Like the judge who’d sat on Tania’s murder case. They had a look the same, used their spectacles as a stage act, and a voice to suit. Seemed to Abe that this one would have children near Abe’s age, so he’d be sympathetic, if not completely understanding, that a man had had no choice. (I swear I had no choice.)Dave Busby had just given a sworn reference in the witness box, in praise of Abe Heke, his employee, and the person he saw with potential to be in business himself. Abe felt a kind of affi...rmation to hear his boss describe him as a true gentleman, for it meant he had achieved his goal of distancing himself from his father’s ways. Dave Busby told the judge that one of his tests of a man’s character was how he conducted himself with drink, that it was a truth potion that spoke well of Abe Heke, and whilst awaiting this court appearance had he promoted Abe to foreman and had no reason to regret the decision, for the young man had leadership skills to burn.Dave went on to say he was in no doubt his employee must have been severely provoked because he was not a man of violence, not under any circumstance.MoreLess
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