Fresh out of the South and a tour of duty in Vietnam, I was seriously conservative and frightened to death of almost everything...

The advent of the Son in the flesh is no happenchance occurrence: it has a hinterland of deliberate and necessary preparation.

First we tried to hire a private detective […] . Next we tried amateurs, two college students out to make their fortune as modern-day Sam Spades. They had obviously watched too much noir TV […]

My trustees are going to lend Earl Blessington sixty thousand pounds (at six per cent.) on a Dublin mortgage. Only think of my becoming an Irish absentee!