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...Durand's narrative, and J. Maxwell Brownjohn's translation, cold feet are "like blocks of ice." A bashed villain goes "out like a light." A neighborhood is "as silent as the grave." An event happens "in a flash." Matters are as clear "as daylight." If the author were competing with John le Carre, these bromides might undo his tale...
...when the jet fell out of the sky: "I heard a noise like thunder, and then I saw the outline of a plane dropping, nose down, straight into the ground." Peter O'Brien was driving by on the A74 highway. "The whole sky lit up as though it was daylight," he said later. "The car behind me was engulfed in flames, and houses were suddenly on fire, as if petrol had been sprayed over them. It was an incredible inferno." Recalled truck driver John McGuinness: "I'm sure the plane was on fire before it crashed. It looked like...
While the acrid smoke still hung over Lockerbie, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited the scene, as did Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The sight was extraordinary in the daylight: the cockpit resting near a church cemetery, Christmas presents never to be delivered scattered on the ground, sheep grazing in one field and policemen looking for bodies in the next. "One has never seen or thought to see anything like this," said Thatcher, visibly moved by the horror...
Halfway up the hill, by the Shawmut Bank (whose digital clock was still an hour off, several weeks after the daylight savings switch) he stopped to rest and smoke a cigarette, forcing me to nonchalantly wander off on my own. Sunset was coming on and the white spire of the town hall was catching a flood of orange light. Behind the building was a cemetery, rolling away in a stretch of trees and headstones three, four or five times the area covered by the Atlantic Market...
After nine years of fighting, mujahedin can drive their few vehicles through the valley in daylight with little worry of attack. The government withdrawal from the Panjshir has prompted hopes in Kabul that Massoud might be coaxed into a cease-fire or even a coalition. According to Massoud, President Najibullah has even offered him a choice of top government posts in exchange for peace...