Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw

Author:Vivian Shaw [Shaw, Vivian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-3565-0890-0
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2018-07-24T04:00:00+00:00

Tap-tap, discreet, on the door behind him. Crepusculus turned from the balcony and went to let the waiter in. He intended to let Brightside sleep as long as he could, but, well. Fresh croissants were fresh croissants, after all.

(He could remember so many other strange mornings, over the centuries. Saigon at dawn, the air already flannel-thick and drowning-hot, how green everything had been, how green and how lush, and the blank helpless awareness of just how many souls there were to escort home. A field in Guyana, patchwork-bright with a carpet of bodies lying facedown amid the rising song of flies, like a bow drawn across strings; blue and red and white and pink and yellow and green, clothes tight over swelling bodies; a horrible cacophony of voices no ears could hear but theirs, hundreds of people, all frightened, all wanting to go home. Tuol Sleng, unspeakable: that one they could not possibly hope to remedy, not all the way, pieces of people’s souls irrevocably soaked into checkered linoleum, bonded, welded to this world due to the means by which they’d left it. Tuam Care Home, in Ireland, and Smyllum in Scotland, so many others, mass graves of babies and children, orphans left in care and killed instead. And back, back, back through the centuries, over and over, the same story – but this one was different, wasn’t it, this one was not man’s inhumanity to man but something much larger, much more frightening, the underlying machinery of reality itself…)

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