Courting Shadows by Jem Poster

Author:Jem Poster [Poster, Jem]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC009030, FIC019000, FIC000000
ISBN: 9781468307801
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2012-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

I was still seething when I got back to my lodgings. By involving Vernon, Banks was issuing an oblique challenge to my own authority. He had not struck me as a man skilled in the ways of the world, but he had certainly identified a point of leverage and would not, I imagined, hesitate to make full use of it.

I might well have spent the evening brooding on the matter if I had not been reminded, removing my jacket, of Ann’s letter. I took it from my pocket and carefully unfolded it; and as I began to read the world and its irritations seemed to recede, as though I had come home to some shared space and found her waiting for me.

It was a surprising letter, strikingly irreticent and, indeed, decidedly presumptuous in its implicit claims; yet I was obliged to recognize that its very audacity constituted a significant part of its appeal.

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