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Tag: air force

A Design for Death

Posted on April 3, 2016June 8, 2023 by Simon J. Wood

“Pulpit duty Sam!” called Major Jack Larson. It was August 1915. Shit! I lowered Ransome’s biography of Oscar Wilde. “Orders. Sorry.” Nicotine-stained fingers tossed me a small envelope containing white powder.

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