Skylights

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  • Published 20101207
  • ISBN: 9781921656187
  • Extent: 264 pp
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GORDON NEVER RUNS his own errands but he banged on my door at 4 am and ordered me to catch the under-the-radar dawn flight to Emergent.

‘I don’t know if you’ve heard,’ I said, standing in the doorway in my underpants, ‘but there’s a civil war going on over there.’

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