Le Photowallah - Caption Therapist, mountainbiker, coffee, Surrey, Spurs & Stade Francais fan - NEIndia usual caveats about non attribution of my tweets to AFP
Received a message from a reader who said he had read three great novels on holiday this summer: The Great Gatsby, Stoner by John Williams and The Redeemed Detective....I blush but lovely to hear.
Fiction's most popular – or even infamous – law enforcers have always been less than perfect, perhaps even harboring dark secrets of their own. The complex character that is chain-smoking Lafarge – creation of Irish author Pirate Irwin – is a worthy addition to that noble canon.