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"Fancied that one, did you?"

"She was very beautiful."

"A lot of them are. And a lot of ex-pats develop a taste, of
course."

"Not you? How many years have you been here?"

"Twenty-five, give or take. But no. They're different, you see,
African women. The smell. The shape of their mouths and their arses.
To me it'd be like shagging a sheep. Not that I've anything against
sheep. Or Africans. They've got their place in nature's blueprint and
we've got ours."

"Apartheid."

"Exactly. The idea was right. It's the way the Afrikaners handled it
that was wrong."

"And because apartheid's dead you want to go home?"

"Not that simple. Although you know as well as I do what's happening
here. This is no place any more for a white man wanting an easy life.
Blighty, old boy. That's where my roots are."

Roots, thought Sam as he spooned tomato soup into his mouth. As
twisted as the rest of Jackman's law-dodging life. The file in London
had shown a blank -when it came to the man's parentage. The first note
of the young Harry's existence had been at one week old when found in
the doorway of a pub.

"So let me get this straight, Harry." Sam edged his voice with
sarcasm.

"You want to settle back in the UK. And you want to be sure
officialdom is nice to you when you get there. So what's the first
thing you do? You offer a story to the papers that'll blow a hole in
the government's claims to have an ethical foreign policy. You're off
your trolley."

"I need to be sure, Simon."

"Of what, for Christ's sake?"

"Of being allowed to live the rest of my life in peace. I'm pushing
fifty. Fifteen years older than you?" He overestimated by a handful
of years.

"I can afford to retire. To do a bit of this and a bit of that, just