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  1. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    Don't go there, Sean. Not on a Sunday. There's no point making waves," Crabbie said. He was as impatient as I was but maybe he was right. We drove back to the station. I poured myself a Johnnie Walker which was the general libation used to liven up the office tea. Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee.
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  2. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    This place was not like the Victorian Prisons of England with their imposing red-brick and neo-gothic architecture that was supposed to impress inmates with the power of the state;no, this place looked cobbled together, shoddy and temporary and the only thing it impressed upon you was how current British policy on Ireland was dominated by short-term thinking.
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  3. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.
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  4. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    But this was Northern Ireland in 1981 which was slightly less conservative than, say, Salem in 1692
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  5. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.
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  6. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?
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  7. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and this tension is communicated to you and the people around you.
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  8. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    How do you feel about homosexuals, Mr. Scavanni?' I asked. 'I think they're great. More women for the rest of us,' he said sarcastically.
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  9. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    Keeping pigeons without a licence is illegal as well, but we can't have people going round shooting pigeon-keepers, can we? It is the job of the RUC to enforce the law in Northern Ireland, not paramilitary groups, not vigilantes, not 'concerned citizens', it's our responsibility and ours alone," McCallister said which made me proud of him. Not quite tears-in-eyes but maybe warm-glow-in-tummy.
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  10. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    You painted it pink?' Price asked with a grin.'That's lavender, you colour-blind eejit,' I said.McCallister saw that Price clearly hadn't got the message yet. 'Hey lads, you know why Price nearly failed the police entrance exam? He thought a polygon was a dead parrot.'The lads chuckled dutifully and somebody punched Price on the shoulder.
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  11. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn't escape Yoko for more than four minutes at a time.
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  12. Adrian McKinty _ The Cold Cold Ground

    With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.
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