The Mind Readers (2008)
“In youth Mr Knapp had been something of a liability and in middle age a deplorable if useful little crook, but neither of these phases had prepared his friend for the lonely old man of the sea he had become. He appeared desperate to talk: marooned amid a generation who treated him as something between an oracle and a pet owl, he seized upon the visitor as if he carried the elixir of life.
At any other moment Campion might well have considered him Heaven sent, for there was very little in the whole Ludor empire of which he did not possess at least a limited view, and nothing that he would not tell the hero who reminded him of halycon days. But what Campion needed now most desperately was to know how Amanda fared, if there was news of Edward, and what Dearest could tell him about Luke in Saltbridge.
His host was merciless. It seemed he had some considerable status, and possessed a private office which he delicately proved was his own by displaying an American-type name-plate on the desk..., and nothing would stop him giving the history of his firm and explaining how it came to be under the Godley wing.MoreLess
At any other moment Campion might well have considered him Heaven sent, for there was very little in the whole Ludor empire of which he did not possess at least a limited view, and nothing that he would not tell the hero who reminded him of halycon days. But what Campion needed now most desperately was to know how Amanda fared, if there was news of Edward, and what Dearest could tell him about Luke in Saltbridge.
His host was merciless. It seemed he had some considerable status, and possessed a private office which he delicately proved was his own by displaying an American-type name-plate on the desk..., and nothing would stop him giving the history of his firm and explaining how it came to be under the Godley wing.MoreLess
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