Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
BEN AARONOVITCHHe was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
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On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
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That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.
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Conflict resolution,’ said Nightingale. ‘Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ I said. ‘But don’t worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.
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The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you’ve generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life – like drinking and sleeping, and if you’re lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.
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When you’re a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don’t want to know.
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Actually I’d always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale – to the Jag mobile.
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The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
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…good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police “first greeting”. “Oi!” I said “What do you think you’re doing?
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The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That’s why they hate politicians so much, because politicians have direct power and they do not.
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It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
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In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
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The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class.
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If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth.
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Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?
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