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Название книги: Flyaway
Автор(ы): Desmond Bagley
Жанр: Приключения
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Two little dicky-birds, Sitting on a wall; One named Peter, The other named Paul.Fly away, Peter! Fly away, Paul! Come back, Peter! Come back, Paul!No man can live in the desert and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad.Wilfred Thesiger
CHAPTER ONE
We live in the era of instancy. The clever chemists have invented instant coffee; demonstrating students cry in infantile voices, 'We want the world, and we want it now!' and the Staffords have contrived the instant flaming row, a violent quarrel without origin or cause.'Our marriage was breaking up and we both knew it. The heat engendered by friction was rapidly becoming unsupportable. On this particular Monday morning a mild enquiry into Gloria's doings over the weekend was wantonly interpreted as meddlesome interference into her private affairs. One thing led to another and I arrived at the office rather frayed at the edges.Joyce Godwin, my secretary, looked up as I walked in and said brightly, 'Good mornin
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