They repeated what they had done before. Mark was inwardly cursing Robert. "This is no fun at all," he thought.That was his last thought before there ...as a flash and a deafening bang. Their land rover was thrown on its side. Mark felt a piercing pain in his right thigh and then no more as his head hit the ground and the land rover fell on his left leg.Tony's reaction was immediate. He radioed company headquarters. "No duff," he said to indicate it was not an exercise message. "Sunray Minor's. The letter ended with a brief but firm postscript that the museum in question wanted to avoid any notoriety that might come with the publication of this journal. Furthermore, with their delivery of the package to its rightful owner, the firm's obligation to any involved party was now ended.The letter raised far more questions than it answered. Who wrote the diary and when? Who donated it to the museum and how were they related to me? What museum would not want an original document from probably. She put her hand to her chest, nodded her head significantly, and went on. ‘Yes, you’re quite right or course, he always …’, she continued, and I blocked her out, reduced her rambling to white noise in the back of my mind. It didn’t help much, still annoying. I wonder if there was a way to tell her about the cheese without being inapropriate. Certainly not while I’m supposedly listening to her ramble. Ah, it’s coming to an end. Now to finish it off with a vague response. ‘Yes, he will be. Is my own. There is no sex in this episode. There is a scene of violence. The Sacred Band, chapter 2. Vignette, 1937. Philip Rotkoff comes of age Stephen Rotkoff’s real experience of violence began in his teens. Not the routine domestic violence of the beatings his father handed out to him, but the sort of experience that was life transforming. When he was sixteen, and already big and strong enough to intimidate and sometimes physically chastise streetgirls and their pimps, he became aware.