‘You done this before?’ asked the cabbie, looking over Dan’s shoulder.
‘First time,’ said Dan, rolling his eyes.
‘I’ll be quiet,’ said Alyshia. ‘Just don’t...’
‘This’ll keep you nice and relaxed,’ said Dan, and then to the cabbie, who was now looking at him intently: ‘You fancy a vodkatini ’n’ all?’
‘Who’s going to clean this shit up?’
‘There wouldn’t have been any shit to clear up,’ said Skin, hooded face up close to the cabbie’s, ‘if you’d done what you was fucking told.’
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ROBERT WILSON is the author of numerous novels, including A Small Death in Lisbon and The Company of Strangers. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising, and trading in Africa, and has lived in Greece and West Africa.
Footnotes
* SIDA is the French acronym for AIDS.
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