Word: underworlders
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Escape Committee. The incentive was that only $942,000 of the loot has been recovered, and Wilson surely knew how to lay his hands on much of the balance. Presumably promised a piece of the cash, an underworld "escape committee" reportedly had been planning the break for months...
Nearby Plane. When the guard came to a few minutes later and sounded the alarm, the usual massive police search was set in motion: roadblocks throughout the area, a special alert at airports and docks, lightning raids on London's underworld haunts, but in the first few days they turned up nothing. Wilson had vanished, perhaps in the car that had parked near the prison that night, perhaps in the light plane seen on a field six miles away. One popular theory put Wilson in Eire, where he might be taking advantage of the fact that its extradition agreement...
...Marseille this time, someone -possibly in the city's famed underworld-had cracked the secrecy. For at least a week before the bachot, parents and children happily paid as much as $300 for the three tough questions on the philosophy section of the test, which turned out to be: "Does perception provide proof of the reality of an object? Is it correct to speak of the lessons of the past? Is liberty of judgment compatible with the necessity of truth?" As word spread to 80% of the local students and to Nice, Corsica, Toulon and Paris, the price dropped...
...gunfire. The bad, or cotton strings, he wore tied around his wrists and a stone amulet he carried in a pouch at his waist kept his 32 souls (one for each major part of the body) from fleeing. The phi or demon who guarded him was undoubtedly among the underworld's most powerful, for Kong Le had never been wounded...
...eyes of the masses ("Statesmen, beware! A fateful revolution is approaching! The spirit of defiance is spreading!"), he thought it could be checked by the wisdom of Louis XVI-and by cutting laborers' wages to remove the temptation to idleness. But his vignettes of violent street scenes and underworld characters develop into a seething panorama of the revolutionary mob, culminating inevitably in massacres in the streets and prisons, and finally in the Reign of Terror. As for Restif himself, he was several times in danger from the Terror, but made an abject declaration for the party of Robespierre...