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Alone in his universe, he had cut himself off. “The Americans still don’t understand how the Zambians have shot down every missile and every nuclear attack plane. It was a big mystery until other things sort of overshadowed it. I had some money in the bank, my inheritance from Rosa, not a lot, but enough for a while.

‘They didn’t find you. “I’m flying down to the coast for a swim,” Blackett told Clare. “Shortcut,” says Lucas. He has eaten the flesh of his own kind, and for nothing.