Friday 8 July 2022

Sowerbutt's Letter

"To tell you the truth, Mr Sorbay, I wasn't sure what to do with it," Dipper, a long sausage of a man, said. "It was over our boiled eggs this morning that the missus remembered our recent work together was for a government bloke, you said."

Sitting in the front room of the Stoke Newington house, Sowerbutt looked at the typewritten letter. The flimsy paper had been folded but the signature was unmistakable, a bold Rudolf Hess trailing off the sheet as though the writer was losing concentration.
"When I saw it was in German, I got Panda to have a squint. He did those German courses with Spaghetti a while ago?
"It talks about the Old World oppressing the colonial peoples and exploiting their trade. The New World should take them over and make them democracies. The Yanks are trying to pinch our Empire."
https://www.amazon.com.au/Colour-Red-Deal-Sowerbutt-Novels-ebook/dp/B00RL9FGKM

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