A young man stands at a lectern in a Headquarters room. Sunlight comes in through a window. He takes an oath. Forty years later, in a cabin on a lake, the same man sits down to write what the oath cost him to keep.
Between the two rooms lies a working life. A chokepoint at a station that closed when the figures said it could not. An operation that was renamed by the institution that had not run it. A meeting at Sandford in which a senior officer described the work incorrectly to a wider audience and the witness corrected him. A corridor walked alone after the truth had been spoken and the institution had decided what to do about the speaker. A radio-net that was switched off because the visibility of a breach mattered more than the breach itself.
And, between the work, the rest of a life. Fifi in the chair by the window, whose hands brought about the internal wishes of her clients. Sarah, whose name lives on the page of another book. Marie, taken in Africa in front of the two men who never finished leaving the day. The cabin where five griefs sit in the same air without being spoken. The porch where five mugs are raised to two women, without words.
The Making of Edward Cole is the closing volume of the Quiet Violence series. It is not a police memoir. It is not a fictionalised autobiography. It is not a grievance text. It is a literary witness statement, lightly disguised, about a man learning to see institutions, people, loyalty, betrayal, grief and himself — and what he became by the seeing.
Edited by Astrid. The reader is warned there is considerable FLOB throughout.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A young man stands at a lectern in a Headquarters room. Sunlight comes in through a window. He takes an oath. Forty years later, in a cabin on a lake, the same man sits down to write what the oath cost him to keep.Between the two rooms lies a working life. A chokepoint at a station that closed when the figures said it could not. An operation that was renamed by the institution that had not run it. A meeting at Sandford in which a senior officer described the work incorrectly to a wider audience and the witness corrected him. A corridor walked alone after the truth had been spoken and the institution had decided what to do about the speaker. A radio-net that was switched off because the visibility of a breach mattered more than the breach itself.And, between the work, the rest of a life. Fifi in the chair by the window, whose hands brought about the internal wishes of her clients. Sarah, whose name lives on the page of another book. Marie, taken in Africa in front of the two men who never finished leaving the day. The cabin where five griefs sit in the same air without being spoken. The porch where five mugs are raised to two women, without words.The Making of Edward Cole is the closing volume of the Quiet Violence series. It is not a police memoir. It is not a fictionalised autobiography. It is not a grievance text. It is a literary witness statement, lightly disguised, about a man learning to see institutions, people, loyalty, betrayal, grief and himself - and what he became by the seeing.Edited by Astrid. The reader is warned there is considerable FLOB throughout. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798180279712
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