You are asking us to lie, Colonel?””I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the…the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low.” The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. “What...

After all these years, his best friend is malaria.Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old...

Well, as to that, all I’ll say is, you can’t take out a fellow’s heart before he’s ready to give it up.