Smithereens Press Chapbooks 'Zero at the Bone' by David Wheatley | Page 44

MCALLISTER
Contraband. Smack.
The white slave trade.
MCDONALD
A spot of the old jihad.
MCALLISTER
All that North Sea gas would make quite a blast.
MCDONALD
All his corner boy stuff might be a front.
MCALLISTER
Too right.
MCDONALD
He could be a stone-cold sober snake
in the grass.
MCALLISTER
This gut-feeling I had...
MCDONALD
Coming in here like he was out on the town...
MCALLISTER
... from the moment he breezed in, blathering on
about ‘over there’, that it was a stunt...
MCDONALD
What manner of stunt?
MCALLISTER
How do we know he’s foreign
40