The Sacred Band Ch 17
The Sacred Band – chapter seventeen. Fighting back part 3. The gig. Barns green, outside Birmingham – night of August 12 1956. It was a moonless, starry night, and a few small clouds scudded across the indigo sky. Three figures stood, motionless, against the high wall they had just scaled. They wore shapeless, hooded camouflage smocks and loose canvas trousers. On their feet were newly purchased plimsolls that would be incinerated before their footprints were discovered. At shortly after...