The Rock by Robert Daws

By Robert Daws

The Rock. Gibraltar. 1966.

In a fading colonial residence overlooking the Straits of Gibraltar, the lifeless physique of an attractive girl lays dripping in blood. The metal deal with of a knife protrudes from her chest, its sharpened tip buried deep inside her heart.

The Rock. current day.

Detective Sergeant Tamara Sullivan arrives at the Rock on a three-month secondment from the London Metropolitan Police carrier. Her purposes for being listed here are now not chuffed ones and she or he braces herself for a tedious and wasteful twelve weeks within the sun.

After all, murders are infrequent at the small, wealthy and sun-kissed sovereignty of Gibraltar and catching murderers is what Sullivan does best.

It is a expertise she stocks along with her new boss, leader Inspector Gus Broderick of the Royal Gibraltar Police strength. He's an old style cop who regards his new colleague with gentle disdain.

But whilst a tender police constable is located placing from the ceiling of his condominium, Sullivan and Broderick start to get to the bottom of a gloomy and hazardous mystery that might try their talents and dealing courting to the restrict

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Whenever they played for the workers, which they did frequently, the couple always closed by playing the Internationale. Always the audience would rise and cheer, even those who were not Communists; for, whatever their creed might be, they knew that this hymn meant battle against the oppressors. These New York Jews wanted to fight Hitlerism with any and every weapon they could lay hands upon. Lanny had first seen her in the midst of World War, and she had been welcoming him to the land of his fathers.

Johannes would have turned anarchist if he had thought that was a way to bring justice upon the heads of those Nazi barbarians who had murdered his son and come so near to murdering himself. Johannes would pour it out in floods, and would have been greatly pleased if he had known what use was going to be made of it. They had been mixed up with all the European tribes for a thousand years, but alas, it hadn’t done them any good. Hansi Robin, tall and dark-haired, might have stepped out of any of the books of the Old Testament; he stood before them, grave and priestlike, playing the Jewish music that he loved: Kol Nidre and Achron’s Hebrew Prayer, and Ernest Bloch’s Nigun, from the Baal Shem suite.

R. And suppose the great man happened to be too busy to see him—what then would become of an art expert’s bright dream of changing world history? “Put not your trust in princes,” the psalmist had advised, and Lanny was not heeding the warning. They wanted to make the world safe for democracy, and at the same time to keep the country out of war. When they discovered that these aims were incompatible, they were in a predicament, and what wonder if their words one day contradicted the words of the previous day, and if their actions were not always in accordance with the campaign platforms of their party?

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