Monthly Archives: October 2011

FIELD GREY by Philip Kerr

October 24, 2011 – 6:36 am

Philip Kerr has been writing about a pre-WWII Berlin detective for more than a decade. These novels cover Bernard Gunther’s career from policeman to private detective to SS soldier to post-war criminal. The books introduce infamous Nazis at various points of their lives and in FIELD GREY the old veteran is entrapped by the CIA […]

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Anti-Protest Camp – London

October 24, 2011 – 4:52 am

After Fingers and I were scourged by the flail of high ticket prices from St. Paul’s Cathedral, we walked to our respective Tube stations. A six-man patrol of riot police tramped down the sidewalk without a step in unison. They had been posted to the other side of the church from the anti-Wealth protestors in […]

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Scrounging At St. Paul’s

October 22, 2011 – 1:22 pm

Last Monday I crossed the Thames on a pedestrian bridge. I had been at the Gerard Richter exhibit at the New Tate Museum with Fingers. He resembled a reformed pirate. We hadn’t seen each other in 10 years. Most of my friends in Europe could say the same. Fingers took a few photos of me […]

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London Redux

October 22, 2011 – 6:57 am

The City of Oxford is served by an express bus to London. The cost of a return ticket is 20 quid. I caught an afternoon bus last Saturday. The trip was quick and painless. I jumped off in Nottinghill Gate. It had been over ten years since my last visit to London, but my memory […]

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Back To The Smoke

October 20, 2011 – 11:42 am

Last week I arrived in the UK for a tour of London. It had been over 10 years since my last visit and my friends sought my presence like I was the only ecstasy dealer at a Berlin Rave. Saturday night a teenage party on Edgeware Road with my godson. There was no way I […]

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